The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

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    $29.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9781841593012
    Published: 15/09/2006
    Imprint: Everyman
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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. . . . .

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