The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [New]
Paperback
First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex.
—The Washington Post Book World
Paperback
First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex.
—The Washington Post Book World
Paperback
First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex.
—The Washington Post Book World
Look for The Testaments, the bestselling, award-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid's Tale is a modern classic.
Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 038549081X EAN: 9780385490818
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Dystopian
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | Science Fiction | General