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In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
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'The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story' Angela Carter 'Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, glam 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' Sunday Times 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 6-1/8" x 9-1/4", 324pp incl. front matter. Printed on alkaline paper and bound in sewn signatures in beige textured paper-covered boards with painted-on russet "backing". Brown end papers. Minor edge wear to base and top of spine. Corners are sharp. Dust jacket is price clipped. Minor edge wear, shelf wear, light soiling to jacket; there is a 1/2" closed tear from the bottom of the back cover, and some wear / chipping at the bottom front spine fold. Book appears to have been read, but binding remains square and strong. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 006361
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. handsome square copy of the book.mild wear to book at bottom of spine.virtuallyinvisible unless you flip the book over and look carefully. a problem shared by most copies of the book. perhaps a slight weakness in the binding. as this problem appears to be common. there is short slit or tear which parallels the left vertical line in the m of margaret . overall the faults are few and moderate . and the price of 250,00 we deem quie reasonable, overall a handsome copy, Seller Inventory # 025411
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, meeting all points. Beautiful copy of a very near fine book with rubbing to head and foot of spine, previous owner inscription to fly leaf, in a very near fine clipped jacket. 324 page octavo, cream paper boards with brown spine, iconic Geltner jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. Seller Inventory # ABE-1610231839203
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. 324 p. 24 cm. Quarter brown cloth with cream cloth boards. In mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket with price-clipped front flap. Inscription on front free endpaper. Faint mark on text block edge. Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" is a feminist dystopia set in a future United States turned into a right-wing religious tyranny. The story was a radical departure for Atwood that caught the attention of millions and remains controversial to this day. Seller Inventory # 158858
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. True first CANADIAN edition. A FINE BOOK ( trace of rubbing to spine end as usual; tiny scar to front free end paper from small sticker removal ) in FINE ( miniscule chips at some corners)jacket. Price present. No damp, no fading, no writing etc. Actually appears unread! Source for the popular dystopian TV series . More pictures on request. Seller Inventory # JD6068