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The Handmaid's Tale
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  • Published: 15 September 2006
  • ISBN: 9781841593012
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 392
  • RRP: $50.00

The Handmaid's Tale

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22 May 2017
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7 Oct 2010
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25 Oct 1996
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16 July 2024
Hardback
2 Apr 2019
EBook
26 Mar 2019
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26 Mar 2019
EBook
15 May 2012
Audiobook
30 Apr 2019
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3 Oct 2016
Hardback
15 Sept 2006
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7 May 2019
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'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . .
  • Published: 15 September 2006
  • ISBN: 9781841593012
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 392
  • RRP: $50.00
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About the author

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.

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 America 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 lives in Toronto.
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Praise for The Handmaid's Tale

'The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story' Angela Carter

'Our of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit' Peter Kemp, Independent

'The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is chilling' Linda Taylor, Sunday Times

'Powerful...admirable' Robert Irwin, Time Out

'Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic' Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener

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The Handmaid’s Tale audiobook read by Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss, star of the hit TV show The Handmaid’s Tale, has narrated the audiobook edition of Margaret Atwood’s classic novel.