Margaret Atwood: "The Handmaid's Tale" (Bloom's Guides): "The Handmaid's Tale" (Bloom's Guides)

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The Handmaid's Tale The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like 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 which her future hangs. Full description