The Resource The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood
The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood
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The item The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
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- "This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L. Doctorow
- The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its world, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm façade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best"--Book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (311 pages)
- Contents
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- Night
- Shopping
- Night
- Waiting room
- Nap
- Household
- Night
- Birth day
- Night
- Soul scrolls
- Night
- Jezebel's
- Night
- Salvaging
- Night
- Isbn
- 9780547345666
- Link
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- Label
- The handmaid's tale
- Title
- The handmaid's tale
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Atwood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L. Doctorow
- The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its world, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm façade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best"--Book jacket
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Atwood, Margaret
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- Middle Grade
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.A8
- LC item number
- H3 1986eb
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- PerformerNote
- Full-cast dramatization
- Reading level
- 9.1
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- Man-woman relationships
- Misogyny
- Women
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- Misogyny
- Women
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- The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood
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