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Format:
Book
Title:
The handmaid's tale
ISBN:
9780385490818

9780606181242

9780738305035

9780329276287

9780329535438

9781439501436
Edition:
First Anchor books edition.
Publication:
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 1998.
Physical Description:
xix, 311 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published: New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
Contents:
Introduction -- Night -- Shopping -- Night -- Waiting room -- Nap -- Household -- Night -- Birth day -- Night -- Soul scrolls -- Night -- Jezebel's -- Night -- Salvaging -- Night -- Historical notes.
Summary:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.4 14.0 8109.

Reading Counts RC High School 9 16 Quiz: 13181 Guided reading level: NR.
Electronic Access:
Author's website http://margaretatwood.ca
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