Set in the Republic of Gilead, the former United States, during the late twentieth century. The declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure where all young women who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerful regime men. This is the story of one of these young women.
year: 2006, 1998, 1986, 1987, 1985
call number/section: 1000
subjects: man-woman relationships, fiction, misogyny, women, religion, man-woman relationship, dystopias, audiobooks, fantasy fiction, fantasy, fantastic fiction, dystopias
Editions
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Distributed by Random House (2006)
Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed.
Schools: 6
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Anchor Books (1998)
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: 35
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Houghton Mifflin (1986)
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: 10
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Fawcett Crest (1987)
Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed.
Schools: 2
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
McClelland and Stewart (1985)
Schools: 1
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Set in the Republic of Gilead, the former United States, during the late twentieth century. The declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure where all young women who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerful regime men. This is the story of one of these young women.
Schools: 0
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Schools: 6