TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The handmaid's tale T2 - Contemporary classics SN - 0099740915 AV - PR9199.3.A8 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1996/// CY - London [u.a.] PB - Vintage KW - Misogyny KW - Fiction KW - Women KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Dystopias KW - gsafd KW - Fantasy fiction N1 - Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1986 N2 - 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 even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs ER -