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The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government.
Mar 16, 1998 · by Margaret Atwood (Author) 4.3 153,091 ratings. Book 1 of 2: The Handmaid's Tale. See all formats and editions. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times).
Jan 1, 2001 · The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a brilliant, endearing, scary as hell book. Told with simplistic prose and stark attention to detail, Atwood describes life in the not too distant future where the United States has been transformed through military coup into a totalitarian theocracy.
The Handmaid’s Tale, acclaimed dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. The book, set in New England in the near future, posits a Christian fundamentalist theocratic regime in the former United States that arose as a response to a fertility crisis.
Feb 17, 1986 · Now a Hulu Original Series. The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate ...
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale Full Book Summary. Previous Next. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America. Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving.
Buy Now. In the world of the near future, who will control women’s bodies? Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. Reviews: The Guardian. The Independent. Kirkus. The Washington Post.
Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Awards. FINALIST | 1986Booker Prize. Praise. "A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex . . . Just as the world of Orwell's 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of Atwood's handmaid!"
About The Handmaid’s Tale. 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.
by Margaret Atwood. 4.48 · 330 Ratings · 14 Reviews · 5 editions. A box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling compani… Want to Read. Rate it: The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1), The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2), The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel, and The Handmaid's Tale...
