•Product details
•Paperback: 336 pages
•Publisher: Vintage Classics; 01 edition (25 May 2017)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1784873187
•ISBN-13: 978-1784873189
•Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm
Product description
Review
"Compulsively readable" (Daily Telegraph)
"The mother of all feminist dystopian novels." (Sarra Manning Red)
Book Description
NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES
Product description
Review
"Compulsively readable" (Daily Telegraph)
"The mother of all feminist dystopian novels." (Sarra Manning Red)
Book Description
NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES
From the Publisher
'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Inside Flap
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 only valued if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days 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....
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, "The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Back Cover
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred 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.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000.