Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Martin, Valerie, 1948-

Description

1. xxxiii, 350 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

1. A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.

Series statement

1. Everyman's library ; 301

Uniform title

1. Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 301.

Subject

1. Theocracy > Fiction
2. Misogyny > Fiction
3. Dystopias > Fiction
4. Pregnancy > Social aspects > Fiction
5. Man-woman relationships > Fiction
6. Women > Fiction
7. Dystopias
8. Man-woman relationships
9. Misogyny
10. Pregnancy > Social aspects
11. Theocracy
12. Women

Genre/Form

1. Dystopian fiction.
2. Fiction.
3. Novels.
4. Political fiction.
5. Fantasy fiction.

Contents

1. Night -- Shopping -- Night -- Waiting room -- Nap -- Household -- Night -- Birth day -- Night -- Soul scrolls -- Night -- Jezebel's -- Night -- Salvaging -- Night.

Call number

1. JFD 15-1838

Note

1. Originally published: London : Cape, 1986. With new introd., bibliography, and chronology.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (page xix).

Awards (note)

1. Governor General's Award, 1985.

Author

1. Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Title

1. The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by Valerie Martin.

Imprint

1. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2006.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Creator/contributor characteristics

1. Canadians
2. Women

Series

1. Everyman's library ; 301
2. Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 301.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (page xix).

Awards

1. Governor General's Award, 1985.

Connect to:

1. Sample text
2. Contributor biographical information
3. Publisher description

Added author

1. Martin, Valerie, 1948- writer of introduction. Author of introduction

Other form:

1. Online version: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale. New York : Everyman's Library, 2006 (OCoLC)761461066

LCCN

1. 2006042618

ISBN

1. 0307264602 (alk. paper)
2. 9780307264602 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 15-1838