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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

McClelland & Stewart | May 29, 1999 | Trade Paperback

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate "Handmaids" under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred's persistent memories of life in the "time before" and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid's Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.


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Rating: 5/5

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Alea

3 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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