An edition of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

The Handmaid's Tale

1st American edition, 28th printing
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An edition of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

The Handmaid's Tale

1st American edition, 28th printing
  • 3.84 ·
  • 81 Ratings
  • 1882 Want to read
  • 106 Currently reading
  • 160 Have read

IN THE WORLD OF THE NEAR FUTURE, WHO WILL CONTROL WOMEN'S BODIES?

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable.

Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now... everything has changed.
--back cover

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Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Language
English
Pages
395

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Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1985

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
395 p.
Number of pages
395

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24372487M
Internet Archive
handmaidstaleatw00atwo
ISBN 10
0449212602
ISBN 13
9780449212608
OCLC/WorldCat
256239023
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0449212602
Goodreads
45863176

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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We slept in what had become the gymnasium.
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