ISBN: 0099740915
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Description:
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...
Review:
Like Brave New World, Children of Men and Nineteen Eighty Four, Atwood's vision of dystopia has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a fable whose view of our possible future is still chillingly relevant. Horrifyingly yet also funny, 'The Handmaid's Tale' is at once scathing satire, dire warning and tour de force....
What the papers say:
'The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalltarian blindness... the effect is chilling' - Linda Taylor, Sunday Times
'Compulsively readable' - Daily Telegraph
'Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic' - Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener
Author's biography:
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and The Handmaid's Tale, which won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, was short-listed for the Booker Prize and made into a major film. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter.
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