An edition of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

The Handmaid's Tale

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An edition of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

The Handmaid's Tale

Movie Tie-In Edition
  • 3.84 ·
  • 81 Ratings
  • 1882 Want to read
  • 106 Currently reading
  • 160 Have read

The Republic of Gilead allows Offred only one function; to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radioation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire--neigher Offred's nor that of the two men on whom her future hangs...
--back cover

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Publisher
Virago Press
Language
English
Pages
324

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London, England

Edition Notes

UK

Copyright Date
1985

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
324 p. ;
Number of pages
324

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24209007M
Internet Archive
handmaidstale00atwo
ISBN 10
1853811742
ISBN 13
9781853811746
OCLC/WorldCat
55563424
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1853811742
Google
0uDpQwAACAAJ
Goodreads
712998

Work Description

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" — the ruling class of men in Gilead.

The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence.

The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award.



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