TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The handmaid's tale T2 - Vintage classics SN - 9781784873189 (pbk.) : U1 - 813.5'4 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Dystopias KW - Classics KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - TV tie-in; Previous edition: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985 N2 - The Republic of Gilead allows Offred only one function - to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all 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 whom her future hangs ER -