The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, First Edition Paperback, 1986

First edition paperback of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, published in 1986 by Houghton Mifflin Company and includes the advance praise for the book on the back cover, see below:

"Sending me The Handmaid's Tale was like offering Persephone an open pomegranate in Hades. An irresistible, fatal gift: I devoured it; it devoured me. Tell Atwood, praised be." - Lois Gould
"This visionary novel, in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theocracy, 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
"An accomplished novel so powerful as to shut,out events in the real world, while answering forever the question of whether there is such a thing as a woman's novel."
-Judith Rossner
"In Margaret Atwood's most powerful, fully realized and moving novel since Surfacing, she gives us a society in which all of the New Right's preaching about women is put into law and into practice, and a heroine who is brave, touching, and wry. This is an arresting triumph of the imagination that should pique the curiosity of male readers and must necessarily be of consuming interest to every woman now alive."- Marge Piercy

BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFO
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston, Copyright 1986 by O. W. Toad, Ltd.
Printed in USA
Softcover, 311 pages
Measures 9"H x 6"W

CONDITION
Good used vintage condition with normal signs of wear and age: shelf, edgewear, sunfading, a few tiny tears in the cover, spine, crease in back cover. Pages are free of writing.

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