The Handmaid's Tale Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Cliffs Notes

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. It is shocking that it took me well into my twenties to finally pick up and read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Haunted by The Handmaid's Tale It has been banned in schools, made into a film and an opera, and the title has become a shorthand for repressive regimes. The protagonist is the Handmaid named Offred; this is not her real name. The Handmaid's Tale Chapter 34-37 Quote Explicated. Atwood - handmaid's tale - AbeBooks The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) by Margaret Eleanor Atwood and a great selection of similar Used, New and Collectible Books available now at AbeBooks.com. "We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. Genre writers based in and around Adelaide, South Australia. The Handmaid's Tale is a construction of a dystopian world. The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. I just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the Claire Danes performed audiobook edition.