The Handmaid's Tale: the number one Sunday Times bestseller
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By Atwood, Margaret
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MARGARET ATWOOD. 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 vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.
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| ISBN |
9781784873189 |
| Released NZ |
22 May 2017 |
| Publisher |
Vintage |
| Format |
Paperback, Media tie-in |
| Series |
The Handmaid's Tale |
| Availability |
999 In-stock at publisher; ships 7-14 working days
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Full details for this title
| ISBN-13 |
9781784873189 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
In-stock at publisher; ships 7-14 working days |
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| Publisher |
Vintage |
| Imprint |
Vintage Classics |
| Released |
22 May 2017
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| Publication Country |
 United Kingdom |
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| Format |
Paperback, Media tie-in
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| Edition |
Media tie-in |
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| Author(s) |
By Atwood, Margaret |
| Series |
The Handmaid's Tale |
| Category |
Modern Fiction
Feminism
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| Number of Pages |
336 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 129mm
Height: 198mm
Spine: 21mm |
| Dewey Code |
813.54 |
| Weight |
234g |
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| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Man-woman relationships - Comic books, strips, etc, Misogyny - Comic books, strips, etc, Oppression Psychology - Comic books, strips, etc, Religious fundamentalism - Comic books, strips, etc - United States, Women slaves - Comic books, strips, etc - United States |
| NBS Text |
General & Literary Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade;College/higher education;Professional and scholarly |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Compulsively readable Daily Telegraph |
| UK Review |
Bertrams Star Rating: 3 stars (out of 5) |
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Author's Bio
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, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. 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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