The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood.
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TextPublisher: London : Vintage, 2017Copyright date: ©1985Description: xv, 324 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784873189; 1784873187Subject(s): Misogyny -- Fiction | Dystopias -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Women -- Fiction | Misogyny -- FictionGenre/Form: Science fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | Dystopian fiction. DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.
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