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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- BNF ID:
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The Handmaid's Tale Deluxe Edition
flexibound, 320 pages
Published Oct. 15, 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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- 978-0-358-34629-6Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
mp3 cd
English language
Published July 6, 2014 by Brilliance Audio.
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- 978-1-4805-6010-9Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
overdrive listen audiobook
English language
Published June 2, 2011 by RH AudioGo.
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- 978-1-4464-7080-0Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published 2017 by Midwest Tape.
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- 978-1-5436-6190-3Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Published Dec. 10, 2010 by McClelland & Stewart.
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- 978-1-55199-496-3Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 312 pages
Published Aug. 27, 1996 by Ballantine Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-449-91153-2Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
audio cassette
English language
Published March 6, 2004 by BBC Radio.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-563-52458-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 54816052
The Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published 2024 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-967-9Copied ISBN!
La Servante écarlate
French language
Published by Éditions Robert Laffont.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-221-18908-5Copied ISBN!
Der Report der Magd
German language
Published July 6, 2017 by Berlin Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-8270-1384-2Copied ISBN!
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