The handmaid's tale

Resource Information

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Label

The handmaid's tale

Statement of responsibility

Margaret Atwood

Creator

• Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-

Subject

• Canadian fiction
• Dystopian fiction
• Misogyny -- Fiction
• Book club bag collection
• Women -- Fiction

Genre

• Dystopian fiction
• Fiction
• Canadian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, andliterary tour de force

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction