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Published: 7 October 2010
ISBN: 9780099511663
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
RRP: $26.00

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The Handmaid's Tale

Name: The Handmaid's Tale
Price: 26.00 NZD
ISBN: 9780099511663

Margaret Atwood

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'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

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Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. 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.

'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo

‘As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it’ Guardian

Published: 7 October 2010
ISBN: 9780099511663
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
RRP: $26.00

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About the author

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She is the author of more than thirty works, which include fiction, poetry and critical essays. Oryx and Crake is her eleventh novel, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, as was The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's, and Alias Grace. Her novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.