The handmaid's tale / by Margaret Atwood ; art and adaptation by Renée Nault.
"Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. 'Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.' Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. The Handmaid's Tale and its iconic images--the red of the Handmaids, the blue of the Wives, the looming Gileadean Eye--have been adapted into a film, an opera, a ballet, and multi-award-winning TV series. This groundbreaking new graphic novel edition, adapted and featuring arresting artwork by B.C. artist Renee Nault, is destined to become a classic in its own right."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780771006852
- ISBN: 0771006853
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
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Subject: | Atwood, Margaret, 1939- > Adaptations. Atwood, Margaret, 1939- |
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An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from âthe patron saint of feminist dystopian fictionâ (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.
In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate âHandmaidsâ under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offredâ s persistent memories of life in the âtime beforeâ and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwoodâs devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaidâs Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.