The Handmaid's Tale
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books edition
Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Published: 1987-02
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780449212608
Copyright date: 1985
Description: 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 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... everything has changed.
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