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.
year: 1985, 2017
call number/section: 1000
subjects: man-woman relationships, fiction, misogyny, women, fiction, religion, man-woman relationship, fantasy fiction, dystopian fiction
Editions
Atwood, Margaret
Seal Books (1985)
Schools: 0
Atwood, Margaret
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2017)
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.
Schools: 2
Atwood, Margaret
Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.
Schools: 4