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The Handmaid's Tale

Vintage Quarterbound Classics
By Margaret Atwood
Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
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Vintage Quarterbound Classics — Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's classic dystopian novel. 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' — Guardian Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly... Read More
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The Handmaid's Tale

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Vintage Quarterbound Classics — Bound to be beautiful

A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's classic dystopian novel.

'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' — Guardian

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.

'Fiercely political, yet witting and wise...this novel seems ever more vital in the present day' — Observer

Vintage Quarterbound Classics — Bound to be beautiful

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784879679

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 207.0mm

Weight: 372g

Pages: 336

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Education & Reference Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Margaret Atwood Most Popular Books of All Time Penguin Books Politics & Current Affairs Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

About the Author

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 shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; and Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories. Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and 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. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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