Rank 96 of 100
The Handmaid's Tale
Also known as The Handmaids Tale
Synopsis
In the Republic of Gilead, fertile women are assigned to powerful households as handmaids, and Offred remembers the ordinary life that was taken in small legal steps. Atwood builds the regime out of practices that have already existed somewhere, which is why the novel refuses to feel like fantasy.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1985
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Dystopian, Literary
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Contemporary
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 311 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction