The Handmaid's Tale

Atwod, Margaret

ISBN 10: 052543500X / ISBN 13: 9780525435006

Verlag: Anchor Books/Random House, New York, New York, U. S. A., 2017

Beschreibung

Stated First Anchor Books Movie Tie-In Edition (Special Edition). "With A New Introduction By The Author"- Cover. Black Over White Pictorial Wraps With White And Red Lettering On The Spine The Cover Has A Few Line Indentions.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 039885

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Handmaid's Tale
• Verlag: Anchor Books/Random House, New York, New York, U. S. A.
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 052543500X
• ISBN-13: 9780525435006
• Bindung: Soft cover
• Ausgabe: Special Edition
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood.

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic.

Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.
 
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.