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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: $45.00

The Handmaid's Tale

Formats & editions
Paperback
22 May 2017
Paperback
7 Oct 2010
Paperback
25 Oct 1996
Hardback
16 July 2024
Hardback
2 Apr 2019
EBook
26 Mar 2019
EBook
26 Mar 2019
EBook
15 May 2012
Audiobook
30 Apr 2019
Paperback
3 Oct 2016
Hardback
15 Sept 2006
Audio CD
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: $45.00
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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.
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Also by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments
Book of Lives
Hag-Seed
Significant Moments
Paper Boat
Dearly
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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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