WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,
poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The
Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam
trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in
2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one
bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent
publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat;
Burning Questions, a selection of essays; and Old Babes in the
Wood, a volume of short stories.
Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and
has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for
Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace
Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement
Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a
cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She
lives in Toronto, Canada.
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 contemporary classic… the book serves as a chilling reminder of
what women have experienced
*Independent*
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
*Bernadine Evaristo*
Compulsively readable
*Daily Telegraph*
The mother of all feminist dystopian novels
*Red*
The novel satirises the strain of evangelical puritanism in
American culture and the objectification and control of women's
bodies. It is more broadly a contemporary myth of despotic power,
and how such power deforms those who are subjected to it
*Observer*
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science
fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
*Angela Carter*
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions,
brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
*Independent*
Margaret Atwood is a wry and perceptive observer of society as well
as an original storyteller
*Psychologist*
The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking
aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is
chilling
*Sunday Times*
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of
twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood’s
devastating irony, wit and astute perception
*Essence*
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist --
Bernadine Evaristo
Compulsively readable * Daily Telegraph *
The mother of all feminist dystopian novels * Red *
The novel satirises the strain of evangelical puritanism in
American culture and the objectification and control of women's
bodies. It is more broadly a contemporary myth of despotic power,
and how such power deforms those who are subjected to it * Observer
*
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in
science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story -- Angela
Carter
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions,
brilliant intense images and sardonic wit -- Peter Kemp *
Independent *
Margaret Atwood is a wry and perceptive observer of society as well
as an original storyteller * Psychologist *
The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking
aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is
chilling -- Linda Taylor * Sunday Times *
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of
twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's
devastating irony, wit and astute perception * Essence *
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 -- Lesley
McDowell * Independent on Sunday *
"Compulsively readable" * Daily Telegraph * "The mother of all feminist dystopian novels." -- Sarra Manning * Red * "The novel satirises the strain of evangelical puritanism in American culture and the objectification and control of women's bodies. It is more broadly a contemporary myth of despotic power, and how such power deforms those who are subjected to it." -- Tim Adams * Observer *
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