The Handmaid's Tale (SIGNED, True 1st Edition, 2nd Printing)

Atwood, Margaret

ISBN 10: 0771008139 / ISBN 13: 9780771008139

Published by McClelland & Stewart, TORONTO, 1985

About this Item

A fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. DJ showing a price of $22.95. Book and jacket present well. DJ has 3 small tears at top of spine, 1.5 inch closed (taped inside face) and minor wear at folds. The book has a very slight shelf wear at the bottom of the spine. Else near fine. In Brodart. SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - BY MARGARET ATWOOD ON A BOOKPLATE AFFIXED TO THE TITLE PAGE. NO MARKINGS OF ANY KIND. This is a first edition, second printing (so stated and is a tight, clean copy. INCUDED IS A PUBLISHER'S BOOKMARK CELEBRATING RELEASE OF TELEVISION PRODUCTION.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Handmaid's Tale (SIGNED, True 1st Edition, 2nd Printing)
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, TORONTO
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771008139
• ISBN 13: 9780771008139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed on Bookplate

About this title

Synopsis

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 “Handmaids” 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, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

About the Author

Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

She is the author of more than forty books — novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye — both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride, winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and Oryx and Crake, a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Orange Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. Her most recent books of fiction are The Penelopiad, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.

Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.