| Description |
1 online resource (311 pages) |
| Contents |
Night -- Shopping -- Night -- Waiting room -- Nap -- Household -- Night -- Birth day -- Night -- Soul scrolls -- Night -- Jezebel's -- Night -- Salvaging -- Night. |
| Summary |
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now. |
| Audience |
750L Lexile |
| Note |
Originally published: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1985. |
| Summary |
Offred, a handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, set in the near future. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Misogyny -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Theocracy -- Fiction.
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Dystopias -- Fiction.
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Pregnancy -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
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Dystopias. |
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Man-woman relationships. |
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Misogyny. |
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Pregnancy -- Social aspects. |
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Theocracy. |
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Women. |
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Fantasty fiction.
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Dystopias.
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Dystopian fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Fantastic fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Dystopian fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986 0395404258 (DLC) 85021944 (OCoLC)12558693 |
| ISBN |
9780547345666 : $14.99 |
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0547345666 : $14.99 |
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