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The very bottom and very top of the binding at the spine are rubbed. Dust jacket has a small irregurlar shaped tear bottom of front panel, is slightly faded on the spine panel, and has a short tear bottom of rear panel, otherwise the dust jacket is clean and is not price-clipped. A novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize and basis of 1990 film of the same name, and the highly successful TV series. 324 pages. Seller Inventory # 22138
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Handmaid's Tale (First Edition)
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
Condition: Near Fine Plus
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
Audie Award, Fiction, 2013
Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Temple Grandin, Homeland) gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time.
After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression.
The Handmaid's Tale is part of Audible’s A-List Collection, featuring the world’s most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star had a hand in selecting.
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