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The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Atwood Handmaid 1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Misogyny--Fiction.
- Misogyny.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Theocracy--Fiction.
- Theocracy.
- Dystopias--Fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Pregnancy--Social aspects--Fiction.
- Pregnancy.
- Genre:
- Dystopian fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019?]
- Summary:
- Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans.
- Contents:
- Night
- Shopping
- Night
- Waiting room
- Nap
- Household
- Birth day
- Soul scrolls
- Jezebel's
- Salvaging
- Historical notes.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0358346290
- 9780358346296
- OCLC:
- 1109399334
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