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1986., Anchor Books Call No: Dystopian FIC Atwood Edition: 1st. Genre: Dystopian Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.
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Ã1986., Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: Fantasy FIC ATWOOD Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. movie tie-in ed., April 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.
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1986., Houghton Mifflin company Call No: DYSTOPIA F ATW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2017]., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Class Set FIC ATW Availability:45 of 45 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in a future society that has reverted to, and gone beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, this story is told through the eyes of Offred, a so-called handmaid. While her job as a surrogate mother to a sterile marriage conveys an elevated status, she longs to escape.
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[2019]., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: GN Handmaid's Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Adapts Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," about a woman from the not-so-distant future and the services she must perform in a society where she is among the few left who can bear normal children, into graphic novel format.
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[2019]., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: GRAPHIC NOVELS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.
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[2019]., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: Dystopian Fic Atwood Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Decades after Offred's experience in the Republic of Gilead, the witness testimonies and writings of three different women are found, offering a look at life inside and outside the Republic. One author is a privileged daughter of a Commander in Gilead, and the other a protestor of Gilead from Canada. The words of these two women collide with those of a third woman, an enforcer in the regime. Their narratives expose long-buried secrets that draw the women together and force them to decide how much they will sacrifice for what they believe.
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[2019]., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: DYSTOPIA F ATW Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets. As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes. --Publisher description.
