| Title |
The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood. |
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| Description |
xix, 311 pages ; 21 cm |
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| Edition |
First Anchor Books Edition. |
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| Note |
Includes an introduction (pages xiii-xix) and historical notes (pages 299-311). |
| NOTE |
Accelerated Reader UG 5.4 14 8109 |
| Summary |
A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction. |
| Audience |
750L Lexile |
| Original version |
Originally published in hardcover: United States : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1986. |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Misogyny -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Fantasy fiction.
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Dystopian fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780385490818
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038549081X
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