The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood (Author)
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.
Deserves the highest praise. -- "San Francisco Chronicle"
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"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!" —The Washington Post Book World "The Handmaid's Tale deserves the highest praise." —San Francisco Chronicle "Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to their logical and chilling conclusions . . . An excellent novel about the directions our lives are taking . . . Read it while it's still allowed." —Houston Chronicle "Splendid." —Newsweek
Margaret Atwood
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.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385490818
Lexile Measure
750
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Anchor Books
Publication date
March 16, 1998
Series
-
BISAC categories
FIC019000 - Fiction | Literary
FIC028000 - Fiction | Science Fiction | General
FIC055000 - Fiction | Dystopian
FIC037000 - Fiction | Political
FIC028000 - Fiction | Science Fiction | General
FIC055000 - Fiction | Dystopian
FIC037000 - Fiction | Political
Library of Congress categories
Women
Fantasy fiction
Man-woman relationships
Dystopias
Misogyny
Fantasy fiction
Man-woman relationships
Dystopias
Misogyny
