THE HANDMAIDS TALE VINTAGE
VINTAGE
It isn t running away they re afraid of We wouldn t get far It s those other escapes the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge Offred is a Handmaid She has only one function to breed If she refuses to play her part she will like all dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid s but her role is fixed her freedom a forgotten concept Offred remembers her old life love family a job access to the news It has all been taken away But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire Includes exclusive content In The Backstory you can read Margaret Atwood s account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel Compulsively readable Daily Telegraph Yayınevi VINTAGE Yazar MARGARET ATWOOD Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 512 SAYFA Yıl 2020
MARGARET ATWOOD
NOW A SMASH HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire neither Offred s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived and executed this powerful evocation of twenty first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood s devastating irony wit and astute perception
