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The Handmaid's Tale
(Hardcover, 1986)
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Author: Margaret Atwood
In this futuristic fantasy, the Republic of Gilead--formerly the United States--is a fundamentalist ...
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$16.95
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0395404258
ISBN-13: 9780395404256
Jan 1986
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In this futuristic fantasy, the Republic of Gilead--formerly the United States--is a fundamentalist regime that has reduced women to a state of servitude and suppressed all civil rights. The protagonist, a woman called Offred, becomes the Handmaid of the Commander, expected to bear him a child in exchange for her freedom. Old enough to remember life before the revolution, Offred resists the new order and becomes involved in an underground resistance movement. Atwood's novel was a best seller and became the basis for a popular movie.
Industry Reviews
"A gripping suspense tale, THE HANDMAID'S TALE is an allegory of what results from a politics based on misogyny, racism, and anti-Semitism. What makes the novel so terrifying is that Gilead both is and is not the world we know....The depth and complexity of Atwood's critique of contemporary society are stunning....[A] stark, even gruesome book, but it does not yield to despair and neither does its author."
Davidson
"If THE HANDMAID'S TALE doesn't scare one, doesn't wake one up, it must be because it has no satiric bite....The most conspicuous lack, in comparison with the classics of the fearsome-future genre, is the inability to imagine a language to match the changed face of common life....Characterization in general is weak..., which maybe makes it a poet's novel....It seems harsh to say again of a poet's novel--so hard to put down, in part so striking--that it lacks imagination, but that, I fear, is the problem."
McCarthy
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Other Editions
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Paperback, 1998 - $0.78 Save 94%
Paperback, 1989 - $0.75 Save 89%
Hardcover, 1987 - $14.94 Save 21%
Audio, 1987 - $8.00 Save 52%
Audio, 2002 - $25.00 Save 64%
Audio, 1999 - $42.19 Save 43%
Paperback, 1987 - $6.00 Save 53%
Paperback, 1996 - $0.75 Save 93%
Hardcover, 1999 - $38.88
Paperback, 1986 - $0.75 Save 89%
Hardcover, 1986 - $9.99
Book, 1985 - $3.00
Audio, 2004 - $11.95 Save 40%
Hardcover, 2006 - $12.79 Save 46%
Hardcover, 1998 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 1989 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
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