The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition

Name: The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
Rating: 4.0781044317683195 (2279 reviews)
Author: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9783546002509

by Margaret Atwood

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The Handmaid's Tale #1224 pages1985Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN 9783546002509

Fiction Dystopian Science Fiction Science

About this book

"In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive."-- Provided by Amazon

Publication Details

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1985
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9783546002509
Language: en

About Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she has received national and international recognition for her writing. ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over forty countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now a successful MGM-Hulu television series currently preparing its fourth season, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; The Penelopiad; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-seed; and The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, published in September, 2019. She lives in Toronto some of the time.