The handmaid's tale
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The handmaid's tale
AUTHOR:
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
ISBN:
9780525435006
EDITION:
First Anchor Books movie tie-in edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xix, 311 p. ; 21 cm
CONTENTS:
Night -- Shopping -- Night -- Waiting room -- Nap -- Household -- Night -- Birth day -- Night -- Soul scrolls -- Night -- Jezebel's -- NIght -- Salvaging -- Night -- Historical notes.
ABSTRACT:
This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
SUBJECT:
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. |
| Misogyny -- Fiction. |
| Women -- Fiction. |
| Fantasy fiction. |
| Dystopias. |
| Dystopian fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.