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THE HANDMAID'S TALE

THE HANDMAID'S TALE

MARGARET ATWOOD

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Publisher:
VINTAGE
Year of publication:
1996
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-09-974091-9
Pages:
324
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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 n

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