Review
'Compulsively readable' --Daily Telegraph
"Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise [...] this novel seems ever more vital in the present day" --Observer- The New Review
'...25 years since it was first published, but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have grown more admirable...' --The Independent on Sunday
'The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalltarian blindness...the effect is chilling' --Linda Taylor, Sunday Times
'Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic' --Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise [...] this novel seems ever more vital in the present day" --Observer- The New Review
'...25 years since it was first published, but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have grown more admirable...' --The Independent on Sunday
'The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalltarian blindness...the effect is chilling' --Linda Taylor, Sunday Times
'Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic' --Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Review
'The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story' Angela Carter 'Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, glam 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' Sunday Times 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Book Description
'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
Product Description
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. . . . .
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'Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit' Independent
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all 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. The Handmaid's Tale is a brilliant and astutely perceived evocation of twenty-first-century America.
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--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.About the Author
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and The Handmaid's Tale, which won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, was short-listed for the Booker Prize and made into a major film. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter.
