Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
	List Price:   $14.95 Unit Price:   $11.96 You Save:   $2.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   038549081X ISBN-13:   9780385490818 Publisher:   Random House [MD]; Anchor Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   March 1998 Pages:   320 Format:   Paperback
Subjects
MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS_FICTION CANADIAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) FICTION_FANTASY_GENERAL
Description/Notes
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? 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 only valued 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, and tour de force. From the Trade Paperback edition. 'A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex . . . Just as the world of Orwell's 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of Atwood's handmaid!' --Washington Post Book World 'The Handmaid's Taledeserves the highest praise' --San Francisco Chronicle 'Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to their logical and chilling conclusions . . . An excellent novel about the directions our lives are taking . . . Read it while it's still allowed.' --Houston Chronicle 'Splendid.' --Newsweek