EAN: 9798217009114

ATWOOD MARGARET THE HANDMAIDS TALE (DELUXE EDIT...

A stunning deluxe edition for the fortieth anniversary of an unparalleled cornerstone of
feminist literature  featuring the original cover art and a short  unpublished essay penned in
1986 by Margaret Atwood  “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” ( The New York Times
).   In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future  environmental disasters and declining birthrates
have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead  a
totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile
women. Offred is one of these  a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s
commanders. Deprived of her husband  her child  her freedom  and even her own name  Offred
clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire  an ominous warning 
and a tour de force of narrative suspense  The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic.

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