The Handmaid's Tale

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all 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. This is a brilliant and astutely perceived evocation of twenty-first-century America.

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"A taut thriller, a psychological study, a play on words....A rich and complex book."<br>-"New York Times" <br>"Atwood has peered behind the curtain into some of the darkest, most secret, yet oddly erotic corners of the mind, and the result is a fascinating, wonderfully written, and disturbing cautionary tale."<br>-"Toronto Sun<br>"<br>"A novel that will both chill and caution readers and which may challenge everyday assumptions....It is an imaginative accomplishment of a high order. . . . "<br>-"London Free Press <br>""Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it is not prophetic."<br>-Conor Cruise O'Brien <br>"A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections of politics and sex....Satisfying, disturbing and compelling." <br>-"Washington Post<br>"<br>"The most poetically satisfying and intense of all Atwood's novels."<br>-"Maclean's<br>"<br>"It deserves an honored place on the small shelf of cautionary tales that have entered modern folklore - a place"

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Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000.

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