Virginia K. (Moo) - , reviewed on 5/9/2007 + 111 more book reviews

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmands are valued only if their ovaries are viable.

Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge, but all of that is gone now...everything has changed.
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THE HANDMAID'S TALE
In rich, pure language, in a story so powerful it will move you to tears, Margaret Atwood has drawn a chilling protrait of a future that may not be so very far away.

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
BEST FICTION AWARD FOR 1986

"EXTRAORDINARILY SATISFYING,
DISTURBING, AND COMPELLING,"
The Washington Post Book World

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