The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller that triggered a cultural phenomenon
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000.
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
*Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER*
Compulsively readable
*Daily Telegraph*
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions,
brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
*Independent*
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science
fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
*Angela Carter*
Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic
*The Listener*
The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking
aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is
chilling
*Sunday Times*
Powerful...admirable
*Time Out*
It's hard to believe it is 25 years since it was first published,
but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have
grown more admirable in the intervening years... Atwood's novel was
an ingenious enterprise that showed, with out hysteria, the real
dangers to women of closing their eyes to patriarchal
oppression
*Independent on Sunday*
Turned 25 this year and...worth re-reading. As you grow, such books
grow with you
*The Times, Christmas round up*
Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise...this novel
seems ever more vital in the present day
*Observer*
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