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
358 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 2002 by Emblem Editions.
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- 978-0-7710-0855-9Copied ISBN!
Il racconto dell'Ancella
Hardcover
Published May 14, 1988 by Arnoldo Mondadori.
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- 978-88-04-28800-8Copied ISBN!
Príbeh služobníčky
352 pages
Slovak language
Published Nov. 6, 2001 by Epos.
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- 978-80-88977-34-6Copied ISBN!
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- 51581664
Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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- 978-0-06-334762-5Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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- 978-1-4088-0295-3Copied ISBN!
HANDMAID?'s TALE (DUMPBIN 36)
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1987 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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- 978-0-86068-921-8Copied ISBN!
HANDMAID's TALE, The (KF8)
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2019 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-4735-7161-7Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2016 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-4735-4696-7Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
audio cassette
Published by Chivers Audio Books.
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- 978-0-7451-6808-1Copied ISBN!
Orjattaresi
395 pages
Finnish language
Published Nov. 6, 1986 by Kirjayhtymă.
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- 978-951-26-2857-5Copied ISBN!
Sargouzasht-e nadiemeh
463 pages
Faroese language
Published Aug. 14, 2005 by Ghoghnoos Publishing.
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- 978-964-311-419-0Copied ISBN!
Orjattaresi
395 pages
Finnish language
Published Aug. 14, 1998 by Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tammi.
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- 978-951-31-1210-3Copied ISBN!
Der Report der Magd
397 pages
German language
Published Nov. 6, 1998 by Claassen.
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- 978-3-546-00143-4Copied ISBN!
HANDMAID?'s TALE (COUNTERPACK
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1987 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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- 978-0-86068-922-5Copied ISBN!
Der Report der Magd.
398 pages
German language
Published Aug. 14, 1987 by Claassen.
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- 978-3-546-41084-7Copied ISBN!
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