02332cam a2200433 i 4500 517022892 TxAuBib 20170609120000.0 170414s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781328879943 $22.00 1328879941 $22.00 TxAuBib rda The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017] 311 pg ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Handmaid's Tale ; 1 Sequel: The Testaments. I: Night -- II: Shopping -- III: Night -- IV: Waiting room -- V: Nap -- VI: Household -- VII: Night -- VIII: Birth day -- IX: Night -- X: Soul scrolls -- XI: Night -- XII: Jezebel's -- XIII: Night -- XIV: Salvaging -- XV: Night -- Historical notes. Set in the near future, The Handmaid's Tale describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a mono-theocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm façade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. 20170609. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Misogyny Fiction. Women Fiction. Literary Fiction. Media Tie-In Fiction. Theocracy Fiction. Pregnancy Fiction. Political Fiction. Dystopian fiction. Fantasy fiction. lcgft Novels. Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, author. Handmaid's Tale ; 1. BTCLS