The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel - Softcover

Atwood, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038549081X ISBN 13: 9780385490818

Publisher: Anchor, 1998

Synopsis

It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed. Deserves the highest praise. -- "San Francisco Chronicle"

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Review:

"A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex . . . Just as the world of Orwell's 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of Atwood's handmaid!" --The Washington Post Book World

"The Handmaid's Tale deserves the highest praise." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to their logical and chilling conclusions . . . An excellent novel about the directions our lives are taking . . . Read it while it's still allowed." --Houston Chronicle

"Splendid." --Newsweek

From the Publisher:

'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 038549081X
• ISBN 13: 9780385490818
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336