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The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood.

By: Series: Attwood, Margaret, Handmaid's tale ; bk. 1Publisher: London : Vintage, 2017Copyright date: ©1985Edition: [TV tie-in edition]Description: xv, 324 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781784873189
  • 1784873187
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6051.T9.H23
Summary: Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.
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Item type Home library Class number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Mid Cheshire NHS Library Leisure Reading FICTION (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36152751

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.

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