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Author Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Title The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood
Published Oxford : Heinemann Educational Publishers/Heinemann New Windmills, 1993

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 MELB  817.05 A8875 A6/H  AVAILABLE
Description 308 pages ; 20 cm
Summary In the Republic of Gilead, Offred is a handmaid. As one of the few women left with functioning ovaries, the one role allowed her is to breed. if she deviates, she will be hanged at the Wall or sent out to die of radiation sickness. But Offred has clear memories of the time before when women were free and she is determined to find a way out
Analysis Canada
English fiction
Subject Handmaidens, Fiction
Reproduction -- Fiction.
Republic of Gilead (fictitious place), Fiction
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 0435124099