The Handmaid's Tale [electronic resource]
Atwood, Margaret2011
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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. . . . .
Main title:
The Handmaid's Tale [electronic resource] / Margaret Atwood
Author:
Atwood, Margaret, AuthorDavid, Joanna, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
The Handmaid's Tale
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the Madaddam 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 him, and the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Sales of the English language edition have now topped 8 million copies worldwide. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
ISBN:
9781446470800
Language:
English
BRN:
1981915
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