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The Handmaid's Tale
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectable - Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224023489
- ISBN 13
- 9780224023481
- Seller
-
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$540.89NZ$432.71
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom, 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Good Condition/Very Good. Good+/VG- 1st printing 1st ed 1986 Cape hardback, price-clipped DJ, first state jacket with rear blurb beginning with Life Before Man. Pages tanned with some uneven blotches and discoloration due to paper, some age spot patches to lower front of inner flap of DJ, gift note to top of fly-leaf in pen, tight and unmarked throughout, scarce first edition. Size: 140\nx 220mm. 324 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Literary Studies: General; ISBN: 0224023489. ISBN/EAN: 9780224023481. Dewey Code: 813/.54. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 090640.. 9780224023481
Synopsis
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. It depicts a totalitarian world known as Gilead, portraying the subjection of women in a patriarchal society. The near-future New England setting illustrates a bleak portrayal of the world after the United States is overthrown by a fundamentalist group. Society is reorganized by the regime using a peculiar interpretation of some Old Testament ideas, and a new militarized, hierarchical model of social and religious fanaticism among its newly created social classes. The novel follows the story of a young woman, Offred, who struggles to maintain her identity. It depicts the rebellion of the women in her social class as their ability to read, write, own property, or handle money are lost. Most significantly, women are deprived of control over their own reproductive functions. The Handmaid's Tale was nominated for the first-ever Man Booker International Prize representing the best writers in contemporary fiction. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 35 internationally acclaimed works of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her numerous awards include the Governor General’s Award for The Handmaid’s Tale , and The Giller Prize and Italian Premio Mondello for Alias Grace . The Handmaid’s Tale , Cat’s Eye , Alias Grace , and Oryx and Crake were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, which she won with The Blind Assassin . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has been awarded the Norwegian Order of Literary Merit and the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres among many others; she is a Foreign Honorary Member for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Toronto.
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- Bookseller
- 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 090640
- Title
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectable - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224023489
- ISBN 13
- 9780224023481
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- BZDB14 Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Contemporary Fiction Fiction; Literary Studies: General; The Handmaids Tale Atwood Margaret
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About 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA
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