TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atwood,Margaret
TI  - The handmaid's tale
T2  - Everyman's library
SN  - 038549081X
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - Theocracy
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Misogyny
KW  - Dystopias
KW  - Pregnancy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Women
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - Originally published: New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986; Introduction -- Night -- Shopping -- Night -- Waiting room -- Nap -- Household -- Night -- Birth day -- Night -- Soul scrolls -- Night -- Jezebel's -- Night -- Salvaging -- Night -- Historical notes
N2  - Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that in gone now
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