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The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood (Vintage classics)
Margaret Atwood
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Description for The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood (Vintage classics)
Paperback. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
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Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511663
SKU
9780099511663
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About Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. ... Read more
Reviews for The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood (Vintage classics)
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER Compulsively readable
Daily Telegraph
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
Independent
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
Angela ... Read more
Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER Compulsively readable
Daily Telegraph
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
Independent
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
Angela ... Read more