Vintage Classics Most Red: The Handmaid's Tale

Vintage Classics Most Red: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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Paperback
h178 x 129mm - 416pg
9 Jul 2020 UK
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9781784875930
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MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics. ' Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don' t let the bastards grind you down. ' Imagine a world where women' s bodies are controlled by men. Where society has descended into religious patriarchy and censorship. Where the environment has been destroyed and a powerful few hold the reins to all wealth and freedom. Welcome to Gilead. This is the story of Offred, a Handmaid forced into sexual servitude, in the country once known as the USA. Atwood' s Handmaids have become a symbol of feminist resistance. This masterpiece blurs the boundaries between fiction and news headlines. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NAOMI ALDERMAN

Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, The
Brave New World
Brighton Rock
Catch-22
Handmaid's Tale, The
Old Man and the Sea, The
Slaughterhouse 5
Stoner
To Kill A Mockingbird
When Breath Becomes Air

A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist Compulsively readable * Daily Telegraph * The mother of all feminist dystopian novels. * Red * The novel satirises the strain of evangelical puritanism in American culture and the objectification and control of women' s bodies. It is more broadly a contemporary myth of despotic power, and how such power deforms those who are subjected to it. * Observer * One of Atwood' s finest pieces of work serves as a great reminder of what humanity is capable of. * Red *
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, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when The Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. 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.
Status: Publication Abandoned or Delayed Indefinitely
ISBN-13: 9781784875930
Published: 9 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 298g
Pages: 416

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