First American edition of this devastatingly plausible vision of theocratic rule and the cost of women's resistance.
Near fine in a very good plus jacket.
Price: $400.00
"I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can't be helped."
A harrowing feminist classic of a near-future United States, where environmental catastrophe presents a useful excuse for the total rollback of women's rights and freedoms under the banner of religious dominionism. Atwood notoriously refused to assign her novel to the category of science fiction, on the grounds that she had invented no new attitudes or practices: sometime or somewhere, everything done to her Handmaids, Aunts, Wives and Jezebels had been done, proposed, or imagined already. Grounded in the backlash-driven social trends of the 1980s, THE HANDMAID'S TALE speaks to the repeating cycles of the eternal present.
Read more: Margaret Atwood, "Haunted by The Handmaid's Tale," in THE GUARDIAN.
First printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter teal cloth with grey paper boards. In original unclipped ($16.95) dust jacket, designed and illustrated by Fred Marcellino. [8], 312 pages. Some minor creasing, toning, rubbing to jacket. Touch of fading and soil to extremities of book. Overall, sound.
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