TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The handmaid's tale T2 - Vintage classics SN - 9781784871444 (pbk.) : U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Misogyny KW - Fiction KW - Dystopias KW - Young adult fiction KW - Older Teenage Fiction KW - ukslc KW - General N1 - Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1986; 12+ N2 - Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has 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 ER -