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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

ISBN: 9780099740919
Release Date: 03 Jan 1998
Average rating: (read by 346 members)

Categories: Modern fiction , Science fiction , Fantasy

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...

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	alannat85 Full Review
	Rated it 13 days ago

Read as part of my GSCE'S reluctantly at first but since have been glad of it, a well written moving book which introduced me to a genre of books i had previously had no intrest in, i have since read more by the author and found them as well written...

	Crikeyme Full Review
	Rated it 1 months ago

I read this years ago, so my memory of it is far from perfect. Since then, I've read most of Margaret Atwood's work and prefer many of them to this (particulary Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin). As far as I remember, I...

	publicserviceradio Full Review
	Rated it 3 months ago

I think I finished this book in a matter of days. It’s up there with Brave New World and Big Brother as a terrifying window into an imaginary dystopian future, in this case where women are ultimately controlled and power is held by a mysterious...

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