The Handmaid's Tale

Paperback, 324 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 1987 by Virago.

ISBN:: 978-1-85381-174-6
OCLC Number:: 55563424

(1 review)

The Republic of Gilead allows Offred only one function; to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radioation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire--neigher Offred's nor that of the two men on whom her future hangs... --back cover

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Stefano Costa reviewed The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

a classic

5 stars

I read this classic just two years ago. It felt more relevant to the present than it may have been when it was written. This book is a revolutionary milestone in speculative fiction and probably feminist literature as well, but I found equally interesting that the text is based on progressive loss of innocence. The final chapter is incredible and left me very satisfied.