The Handmaid's Tale - Children's Classic Edition

NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept. Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire.Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Atwood
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781784871444
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-144-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 188 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The Handmaid’s Tale; The Handmaid’s Tale
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Dystopian, Narrative theme: Social issues, Feminism & feminist theory, Modern and contemporary fiction, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist, Dystopian and utopian fiction