The handmaid's tale [kit] / Margaret Atwood.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
Record details
- ISBN: 052543500X : PAP
- ISBN: 9780525435006 : PAP
- Physical Description: 12 books (xix, 311 pages) in a tote box ; 11 x 15 x 7 + 1 folder.
- Edition: First Anchor books movie tie-in edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC., 2017, c1986.
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General Note: | Twelve copies of this title are in a book club kit for checkout. "With a new introduction by the author"--Cover. Originally published: London : Cape, 1986. With new introduction, bibliography, and chronology. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Book club kit. Misogyny > Fiction. Women > Fiction. |
Genre: | Fantasy fiction. |
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Princeton Area Library | BCK ATW (Text) | 32050008188291 | Book Club Kit | Available | - |
Summary:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.