Description: |
xxxiii, 350 pages ; 22 cm. |
Series: |
Everyman's library
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Bibliog.: |
Includes bibliographical references (page xix). |
Summary: |
A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. |
Awards: |
Governor General's Award, 1985. |
Subject: |
Theocracy -- Fiction.
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Misogyny -- Fiction.
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Dystopias -- Fiction.
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Pregnancy -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Genre: |
Dystopian fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Contributors: |
Martin, Valerie, 1948- author of introduction. Author of introduction, etc..
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ISBN/ISSN: |
0307264602 |
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9780307264602 |
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