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The handmaid's tale

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.
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Genre/Form: Fantastic fiction
Dystopias
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0395404258 9780395404256 9780385490818 038549081X
OCLC Number: 12558693
Description: 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Margaret Atwood.
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"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.

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