The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

315 pages paperback 1985

398 editions

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
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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.

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