The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, in a locale that oddly resembles Cambridge, Massachusetts, it describes life in what was once the United States. Now, however, it has become the Republic of Gilead, a monolithic theocracy that has reacted to social …
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The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, in a locale that oddly resembles Cambridge, Massachusetts, it describes life in what was once the United States. Now, however, it has become the Republic of Gilead, a monolithic theocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, and has gone far beyond them. This regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for women, and for men as well.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate "Handmaids" under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions.
The Handmaid's Tale is A Clockwork Orange as seen by women: unexpected, funny, horrifying, and altogether convincing. the book is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning. this is Atwood in top form.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 325 pages
English language
Published March 16, 1998 by Anchor Books.
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- 978-0-385-49081-8Copied ISBN!
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- 964816254
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 324 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1987 by Virago.
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- 978-1-85381-174-6Copied ISBN!
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- 55563424
The Handmaid's Tale
Hardcover, 311 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 1986 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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- 978-0-395-40425-6Copied ISBN!
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- 12558693
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 314 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 2017 by Vintage.
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- 978-1-78487-318-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1016137867
The Handmaid's Tale
Mass Market Paperback, 395 pages
English language
Published Dec. 14, 1991 by Fawcett Crest.
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- 978-0-449-21260-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 15091789
Der Report der Magd
Paperback, 398 pages
German language
Published April 14, 1989 by Fischer.
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- 978-3-596-25987-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 37490165
- ISFDB ID:
- 565199
- GoodReads:
- 1131981
El cuento de la criada
Paperback, 416 pages
Spanish language
Published March 6, 2025 by SALAMANDRA.
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- 978-84-10340-77-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1498306258
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 315 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2019 by Anchor Books.
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- 978-1-9848-9966-8Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
unbound, 293 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 1989 by McClelland-Bantam, Seal Books.
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- 978-0-7704-2263-9Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
hardcover, 240 pages
English language
Published March 26, 2019 by Nan A. Talese.
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- 978-0-385-53924-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1048660649
The Handmaid's Tale
Hardcover, 350 pages
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1986 by Jonathan Cape.
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- 978-0-224-02348-1Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 479 pages
English language
Published July 6, 2016 by VINTAGE.
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- 978-1-78487-144-4Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 529 pages
English language
Published Nov. 6, 2017 by Large Print Press.
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- 978-1-4328-3848-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1056986536
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 293 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 1986 by McClelland & Stewart.
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- 978-0-7704-2115-1Copied ISBN!
La servante écarlate
Paperback, 522 pages
French language
Published July 6, 2017 by Pavillons Poche/Robert Laffont.
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- 978-2-221-20332-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1142018288
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