The Handmaid's tale

Author

Margaret Atwood

Call Number

• FICTION ATWO (OSH, WSQ)

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Physical Description

xxxiii, 350 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

Margaret Atwood presents a chilling dystopic novel set in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, after a radical theocratic revolution. In a time of declining birthrates, fertile women are dispersed to high-ranking white men as baby-making handmaids. If a handmaid cannot reproduce, she is exiled to the Colonies, an uber-polluted wasteland. One of these handmaids, Offred, not only remembers her life before the revolution, but is determined to reclaim it.

Contents

• Night
• Shopping
• Night
• Waiting room
• Nap
• Household
• Night
• Birth day
• Night
• Soul scrolls
• Night
• Jezebel's
• Night
• Salvaging
• Night.