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The Handmaid's Tale

  • Imprint: Audiobooks

  • ISBN: 9781786141637

  • Length: 683  Minutes

  • Dimensions: 143mm x 25mm x 139mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • RRP: £20.00

The Handmaid's Tale

  • Margaret Atwood

  • Elisabeth Moss (Read by)

  • Bradley Whitford (Read by)

  • Amy Landecker (Read by)

  • Ann Dowd (Read by)

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood, read by Elisabeth Moss, with Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker and Ann Dowd.

READ BY ELISABETH MOSS, STAR OF THE HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES

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.

Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.

  • Imprint: Audiobooks

  • ISBN: 9781786141637

  • Length: 683  Minutes

  • Dimensions: 143mm x 25mm x 139mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • RRP: £20.00

Reviews

  • Compulsively readable

    Daily Telegraph

  • Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit

    Independent

  • Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic

    The Listener

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About the Author

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Features

Margaret Atwood: 'The Handmaid's Tale is being read very differently now'

Since The Handmaid’s Tale hit TV screens in 2017, Margaret Atwood’s already-prominent profile as a feminist has blazed ever brighter. Here she talks about how the novel came to fruition while she was living in Berlin, speaking up and what’s next for feminism. The sequel to the book The Testaments will publish 2019.

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