- Published: 30 April 2019
- ISBN: 9781473560925
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 11 hr 23 min
- Narrator: Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker, Ann Dowd
- RRP: $19.99
The Handmaid's Tale
NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES - NOMINATED FOR 13 EMMYS
Brought to you by Penguin, the audiobook edition of The Handmaid’s Tale, read by Elisabeth Moss, star of the Channel 4 TV series. Shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the British Book Awards 2020.Winner of Best Audiobook (Fiction) at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.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.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of 21st-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.
©2011 O W Toad Ltd (P)2019 Penguin Audio
- Published: 30 April 2019
- ISBN: 9781473560925
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 11 hr 23 min
- Narrator: Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker, Ann Dowd
- RRP: $19.99
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
Compulsively readable
Daily Telegraph
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
Peter Kemp, Independent
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
Angela Carter
Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic
Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener
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
It's hard to believe it is 25 years since it was first published, but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have grown more admirable in the intervening years... Atwood's novel was an ingenious enterprise that showed, with out hysteria, the real dangers to women of closing their eyes to patriarchal
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
Turned 25 this year and...worth re-reading. As you grow, such books grow with you
Erica Wagner, The Times, Christmas round up
Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise...this novel seems ever more vital in the present day
Observer
The mother of all feminist dystopian novels.
Sarra Manning, Red
The novel satirises the strain of evangelical puritanism in American culture and the objectification and control of women’s bodies. It is more broadly a contemporary myth of despotic power, and how such power deforms those who are subjected to it.
Tim Adams, Observer
One of Atwood’s finest pieces of work serves as a great reminder of what humanity is capable of.
Hannah Dunn, Red
Margaret Atwood is a wry and perceptive observer of society as well as an original storyteller
Cecilia Heyes, Psychologist
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit and astute perception
Essence
This is a novel pervaded by violence, sex, terror, but also by contemplation, analysis and – occasionally – by hope… Atwood shockingly reveals what we could be capable of.
Elly McCausland, Cherwell Newspaper
Compulsively readable
Daily Telegraph
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
Peter Kemp, Independent
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
Angela Carter
Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic
Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener
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
It's hard to believe it is 25 years since it was first published, but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have grown more admirable in the intervening years... Atwood's novel was an ingenious enterprise that showed, with out hysteria, the real dangers to women of closing their eyes to patriarchal
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
Turned 25 this year and...worth re-reading. As you grow, such books grow with you
Erica Wagner, The Times, Christmas round up
Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise...this novel seems ever more vital in the present day
Observer
The mother of all feminist dystopian novels.
Sarra Manning, Red
The several narrators match the powerful heft of Atwood’s elegant, economical prose.
Christina Hardyment, The Times, *Audiobook of the Week*
Elisabeth Moss, star of the hit TV show The Handmaid’s Tale, has narrated the audiobook edition of Margaret Atwood’s classic novel.
