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The Handmaids Tale

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The Handmaids Tale

by Margaret Atwood, Michael OBrien

Goose Lane Editions | October 5, 2004 | Audio Book (CD)

Fans of Margaret Atwood''s fiction can now experience The Handmaid''s Tale as a gripping audio dramatization. Starring Emma Campbell as Offred, William B. Davis as the Commander, and Donna Goodhand as the Commander''s barren wife Serena Joy, this stunning production of Atwood''s Booker Prize-nominated work of speculative fiction was an instant hit when it first aired in 2002. A feminist Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid''s Tale portrays the future as a chilling dystopia in which religious extremists rule the United States and birth rates are plunging. Assigned to a member of the Gilead elite as an official breeder, the handmaid Offred mingles memories of her old life in the 1980s with dangerous thoughts of rebellion and escape. Audaciously imaginative, The Handmaid''s Tale combines the suspence of a psychological thriller with a bittersweet love story.
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    Rating: 4/5

    Powerful and provocative dystopian fiction

    Matthew McCarthy

    2 years ago

    The Handmaid's Tale is the third of Atwood's novels that I've picked up within the past year and a half, and I can see why this novel probably picks up the most recognition amongst her other works. While I can't comment on the Blind Assassin -- a novel still sitting on my shelf, waiting to be read -- both Alias Grace and The Edible Woman were novels that I thoroughly enjoyed. While The Edible Woman gives us a quirky black comedy, Alias Grace gives us a thought-provoking historical narrative. Conversely, The Handmaid's Tale deals with the fragmented memories of Offred -- a "farmed" woman (a Handmaid) only valued for her viable ovaries in a haunting patriarchal totalitarian state.

    While I won't give away too much of what the novel is about, it is told in a way that makes you want to read as voraciously as possible to find out what actually ends up happening. I've heard people say Atwood at times is predictable, but nothing in this novel is easy to guess. It may deal with the same well-trodden themes found in Atwood novels, but really I didn't expect anything completely new when reading the jacket.

    The Handmaid's Tale may not be a totally "new" idea; in our present day the landscape of fiction is almost overwhelmed with the dystopian, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale easily ranks in the upper echelon of what is available.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Not What I Expected...

    Alea

    2 years ago

    We had been given this book to read in Grade 11 and I blew it off as many classmates did, but never returned the book to the teacher. After I graduated High School, I looked on my shelf and still had it.

    Man, I should have read it in Grade 11. It's such a beautiful book. I found it hard to get into in the beginning, but having nothing else to read that day, I forced myself to continue and found myself captivated in a truley amazing story.

    A must read, not only because it's Atwood, but because it's a story of a few lives you'll always remember.

    Comments on this review:
    Diana Reid

    Please, anyone who still has books from high school: bring them back. As a high school teacher, my book budget has been slashed yearly until just getting replacements for books "lost" by students is too expensive. There are 4 great novels I can't teach to my students, because we have fewer than 20 copies left. Better still, find a sale on a novel you love:one of those 1 or $2 sales, and donate 30-60 dollars to your local school in the form of a class set of novels to soothe the guilt of overdue books. As I write this, I am building my own class sets of novels that I love, simply because we haven't the funds to take a chance on new literature. Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask, Edmund Rostand's Cyrano , etc. are all being bought out of pocket.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Another please

    Kimberli

    3 years ago

    This was my first Atwood book, and now I can't wait to read another. Out of all the books that I've read in the past about the future, I would have to say this one gave me the most chills. great plot, and beautiful imagery.

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    Not Impressed

    Rating: 3/5

    Bunch of babbel

    Not Impressed

    11 years ago

    I just finished reading the book and although it was intresting I wouldn't read it again. I didn't find it disturbing or realistc and the ending was far from good. The book was just babbel with no real meaning.

    Comments on this review:
    Susie Barbosa

    I agree. I read it, and found the middle was a little long and meaningless. It was a decent read, but I wouldn't read it again

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Fans of Margaret Atwood''s fiction can now experience The Handmaid''s Tale as a gripping audio dramatization. Starring Emma Campbell as Offred, William B. Davis as the Commander, and Donna Goodhand as the Commander''s barren wife Serena Joy, this stunning production of Atwood''s Booker Prize-nominated work of speculative fiction was an instant hit when it first aired in 2002. A feminist Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid''s Tale portrays the future as a chilling dystopia in which religious extremists rule the United States and birth rates are plunging. Assigned to a member of the Gilead elite as an official breeder, the handmaid Offred mingles memories of her old life in the 1980s with dangerous thoughts of rebellion and escape. Audaciously imaginative, The Handmaid''s Tale combines the suspence of a psychological thriller with a bittersweet love story.

About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the internationally renowned author of such novels as Oryx and Crake, Alias Grace, and The Edible Woman. She is a novelist and a poet, and has also authored short story collections, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts and books

Audio Book (CD)

1 Pages, 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.39 in

October 5, 2004

Goose Lane Editions

English


0864923414
9780864923417

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From the Critics

"The most poetically satisfying and intense of all Atwood's novels" - Maclean's

"Her most daring work." - Publishers Weekly

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