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'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge' Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept. Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire. Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
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The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- The handmaid's tale
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Margaret Atwood
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 479
- ISBN10
- 1784871443
- ISBN13
- 9781784871444
- Series
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Collection
- Vintage Classics
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Religious Topics, Science Fiction, Women, Classics, Suspense, USA, Children, Gifts for women, Gifts for men, Feminism, Adapted for Film, Dystopia, Future, Rape, Canadian Literature, Cruelty, Terror, Adapted into Series, Utopia, Rebellion, Uprising, Dictatorship, Oppression, Patriarchy, Religious Fanaticism, Misunderstanding, Clerofascism, Castes, Caste System, Theocracy
- First published
- 1985
- Original title
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- 'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge' Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept. Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire. Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph