The Handmaid's Tale: Everyman's Library (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

The Handmaid's Tale: Everyman's Library (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by Margaret Atwood (Author), Margaret Atwood (Author), Margaret Atwood (Author), Valerie Martin (Introduction)

Synopsis

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Edition: 1
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 07 Sep 2006

ISBN 10: 184159301X
ISBN 13: 9781841593012
Book Overview: 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

Media Reviews
'Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic' Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener
'The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story' Angela Carter
'Our of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit' Peter Kemp, Independent
'The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is chilling' Linda Taylor, Sunday Times
'Powerful...admirable' Robert Irwin, Time Out
Author Bio
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000.