- Publisher:
- VINTAGE
- Year of publication:
- 2018
- Subject:
- Contemporary fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-487-2
- Pages:
- 320
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
MARGARET ATWOOD
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.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.