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 Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000.
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