The handmaid's tale [electronic resource] / Margaret Atwood.
Summary:
"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.
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Record details
- ISBN: 0547345666
- ISBN: 9780547345666
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
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| Participant or Performer Note: | Full-cast dramatization. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Misogyny > Fiction. Women > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Dystopias. Fantastic fiction. |
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Summary:
"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.
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