The Handmaid's Tale
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Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Margaret Atwood |
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| Cover artist | Tad Aronowicz,[1] design; Gail Geltner, collage (first edition, hardback) |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Dystopian novel, science fiction, speculative fiction |
| Publisher | McClelland and Stewart |
Publication date
| 1985 (hardcover) |
| Pages | 311 |
| ISBN | 0-7710-0813-9 |
The Handmaid's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel[2] by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.[3][4] Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States government, the novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which comprises a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", etc.).[5]
The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. The book has been adapted into a film (1990), an opera (2000), a TV series (2017), and other media.
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