Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood, read by Elisabeth Moss, with Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker and Ann Dowd. READ BY ELISABETH MOSS, STAR OF THE HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.
CONTRIBUTORS: Margaret Atwood
EAN: 9781786141637
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 243 g
HEIGHT: 142 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Cornerstone
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GENRE: FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Feminist
WIDTH: 139 cm
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Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Feminism and feminist theory
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist, Compulsively readable, Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit, The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story, Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic
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 shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade, and in 2022 Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller. 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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