The handmaid's tale [book club]

Author

Margaret Atwood

Call Number

• BOOK CLUB FICTION ATWO (CEN)

Edition

First Anchor Books edition.

Publication Information

New York : Anchor Books, 1998.

Physical Description

311 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

Set in a future society that has reverted to, and gone beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, this story is told through the eyes of Offred, a so-called handmaid. While her job as a surrogate mother to a sterile marriage conveys an elevated status, she longs to escape.

Notes

Holds allowed on multiple copies. Please place each hold separately.