The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'
Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept.
Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
- Article Number:
- 529453
- Author:
- Margaret Atwood
- Product Depth:
- 2.7 cm
- Product Height:
- 20.1 cm
- Product Weight:
- 0.241 kg
- Product Width:
- 13.5 cm
- Published:
- 01.12.2010
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books
'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'
Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept.
Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
- Article Number:
- 529453
- Author:
- Margaret Atwood
- Product Depth:
- 2.7 cm
- Product Height:
- 20.1 cm
- Product Weight:
- 0.241 kg
- Product Width:
- 13.5 cm
- Published:
- 01.12.2010
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books