The Handmaid's Tale

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In this multi-award-winning bestselling novel Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead where women are prohibited from holding jobs reading and forming friendships Offreds persistent memories of life in the time before and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative startling prophetic and with Margaret Atwoods devastating irony wit and acute perceptive powers in full force The Handmaids Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.