The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin by Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780307264602)

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The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin by Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin

$28.00
The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin by Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin

$28.00
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution--from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times). - Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.

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 that the Commander makes 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.

Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.

Author: Margaret Atwood
ISBN-10: 0307264602
ISBN-13: 9780307264602
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2006
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.26w x 1.01d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8109 / Handmaid's Tale


Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 11/02/2006 pg. 18
By Margaret Atwood
By Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.

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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