The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)

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. . . . .

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.

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Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic,The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story,Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit,The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is chilling,Powerful...admirable