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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 295 pages
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN: 038549081X
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now....
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
| | | | From The Publisher
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now....
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
..was captivating from beginning to end...
-- A reviewer, a lover of the arts, July 18, 2002
Also Recommended: Cats Eye, The Blind Assasin, The Hobbit, The Bell Jar
My #1 recommendation to any avid reader
-- Heidi, grad student, February 1, 2002
Also Recommended: Alias Grace by Atwood and The Futures of Women by McCorduck and Ramsey
-- A review to remember 
-- Lou, NOT A MAN-HATER, January 24, 2002
Amazing...
-- Neb, a 14 yr. old bookworm, July 22, 2002
Also Recommended: Enders Series, His Dark Material Trilogy, The Hitchhikers series, Good Omens, anything by Tad Williams, The books of Fell...
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Atwood's most widely read book to date depicts a future society founded on the oppression of women.
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