Bibliograph

The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by Valerie Martin

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The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by Valerie Martin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xix)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The handmaid's tale

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

64592213

Responsibility statement

Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by Valerie Martin

Series statement

Everyman's library, 301

Summary

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules

Table Of Contents

Night -- Shopping -- Night -- Waiting room -- Nap -- Household -- Night -- Birth day -- Night -- Soul scrolls -- Night -- Jezebel's -- Night -- Salvaging -- Night

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