The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 17 հոկ, 2006 թ. - 400 էջ
One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution—from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times). • Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.

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 that the Commander makes 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.

Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.

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SHOPPING II
11
NIGHT
45
WAITING ROOM
51
NAP
81
HOUSEHOLD
91
NIGHT
117
BIRTH DAY
123
NIGHT
163
SOUL SCROLLS
171
NIGHT
217
JEZEBELS
225
NIGHT
291
SALVAGING
299
NIGHT
325
Historical Notes
333
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.
 
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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ՎերնագիրThe Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
ՀեղինակMargaret Atwood
ԱջակցողValerie Martin
Editionreprint
ՀրատարակիչKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006
ISBN0307264602, 9780307264602
Length400 էջ
  
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