Title The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood

Edition [TV tie-in edition] Published London : Vintage, 1996 London : Vintage Books, 1996 ©1985 ©1985

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Description 324 pages ; 20 cm Series Contemporary classics Contemporary classics. Contents Night - Shopping - Night - Waiting room - Nap - Household - Night - Birth day - Night - Soul scrolls - Night - Jezebel's - Night - Salvaging - Night - Historical notes Summary 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 Analysis Science fiction Notes Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1986 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Performer Reading by Claire Danes Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Misogyny -- Fiction. Totalitarianism -- Fiction. Women -- Fiction. Genre/Form Dystopian fiction. Dystopias. Science fiction. Fantasy fiction. Fiction. Author Martin, Valerie, 1948- author ISBN 0099740915 (paperback) 9780099740919 (paperback)

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