Published: 30 October 2017
ISBN: 9781784708238
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
RRP: $29.99

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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

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Published: 30 October 2017
ISBN: 9781784708238
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
RRP: $29.99

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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, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and 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 and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Praise for The Handmaid's Tale

A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

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

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

Powerful...admirable
Robert Irwin, Time Out

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