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The Handmaid's Tale

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A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offered is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the COmmander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.

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Series Title

Everyman's Library

Call Number

F ATW h

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf., 2006

Collation

xxxiii, 350 p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780307264602

Classification

F

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Subject(s)

Misogyny - Fiction
Women - Fiction

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