The Handmaid's Tale
The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series
$33.65
- Compact Disc
10 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2019
Summary
NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES - NOMINATED FOR 13 EMMYS
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood, read by Elisabeth Moss, with Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker and Ann Dowd.
READ BY ELISABETH MOSS, STAR OF THE HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function - to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786141637 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786141639 |
| Author: | Margaret Atwood, Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker, Ann Dowd |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Random House Audiobooks |
| Format: | Compact Disc |
| Number of Pages: | 10 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 141mm x 137mm x 23mm |
| Series: | The Handmaid's Tale |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Compulsively readable
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist – Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERCompulsively readable * Daily Telegraph *Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit * Independent *The Handmaid’s Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story – Angela CarterMoving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it’s not prophetic * The Listener *The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness…the effect is chilling * Sunday Times *Powerful…admirable – Robert Irwin * Time Out *It’s hard to believe it is 25 years since it was first published, but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have grown more admirable in the intervening years… Atwood’s novel was an ingenious enterprise that showed, with out hysteria, the real dangers to women of closing their eyes to patriarchal oppression * Independent on Sunday *Turned 25 this year and…worth re-reading. As you grow, such books grow with you * The Times, Christmas round up *Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise…this novel seems ever more vital in the present day * Observer *
About The Author
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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