The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)

The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)

Author:

Margaret Atwood

Publisher:

Vintage Publisher

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Publisher

Vintage Publisher
Publication Year 1996
ISBN-13

9780099740919
ISBN-10 9780099740919
Binding

Paperback
Number of Pages 320 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 19 x 12.7 x 2
Weight (grms) 224

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **


Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The Testaments


NOW AN AWARD-WINNING TV SERIES STARRING ELISABETH MOSS


Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.


Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cats Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaids Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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