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The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood ; art and adaptation Renée Nault.

By: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- [author.]Contributor(s): Nault, Renee [artist.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2019Description: 240 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780224101936 :; 0224101935 :Genre/Form: Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.DDC classification: 741.5 Summary: Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. "Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us." Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.
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Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. "Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us." Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships.

She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile.

But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own.

Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.

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