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The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood.

By:

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Handmaid's Tale series ; [1] | Canada reads ; 2002Publication details: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1985.Description: 1 v. (various pagings)ISBN:

9780735253308 (2017 TV TieIn ed.)

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DDC classification:

C813/.54 19

Online resources:

Online study guide

Awards:

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 1987.
Winner of the Governor-General's Award for fiction, 1985.

Summary: "In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? 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 only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days 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.... "--Publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC ATW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Replacement copy Sept 19, 2017	Checked out	09/25/2024	33321003135242

Total holds: 0

"In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? 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 only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days 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.... "--Publisher.