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The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood.

by Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-

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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.

Governor General's Award.

Women -- Fiction.

Sexual division of labor -- Fiction.

Sex role -- Fiction.

Imaginary societies -- Fiction.

Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

Canada reads ; 2002

9780063347625 (Large print trade pbk.)

9781432838478 (Large print hc.)

1432838474 (Large print hc.)

Large print edition.

531 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

Night -- Shopping -- Night -- Waiting room -- Nap -- Household -- Night -- Birth day -- Night -- Soul scrolls -- Night -- Jezebel's -- Night -- Salvaging -- Night -- Historical notes.

"In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? 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 only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days 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 is gone now.... "--Publisher.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 1987.

Winner of the Governor-General's Award for fiction, 1985.

Dystopian fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Feminist fiction.

Literary fiction.

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