The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780099740919 Global Overview for this book
Registered by keithpp of Farnborough, Hampshire United Kingdom on 1/23/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by keithpp from Farnborough, Hampshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
A chilling account of a post-apocalyptic future, shades of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Yevgeny Zamyatin.

I vaguely remember hearing a dramatisation of The Handmaid's Tale on the radio and thinking I must read the book.

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood was awarded the Booker Prize 2000 for her novel The Blind Assassin. She donated all of her Booker prize money to environmental causes. The Handmaid's Tale was nominated for the Booker Prize.

The Handmaid's Tale earned her the Arther C Clark Award.


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