The Handmaid's Tale
por Atwood, Margaret
- Usado
- Bom
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Bom/Fine
- Livreiro
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Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
First Canadian edition, first impression (McClelland and Stewart, 1985). Signed and inscribed by the author to half-title: 'For Nancy - Best Wishes - Margaret Atwood'. Featuring striking dust jacket artwork by Tad Aronowicz. The true first edition, preceding that of the UK and the US. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and more recently adapted into a successful TV series.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth with cream boards and white lettering to spine. A fine and clean copy with some of the seemingly always present rubbing to the spine ends.
The original and unclipped dust jacket has a nick to spine foot, but is otherwise beautifully crisp and sharp.
A uniquely superior example of a classic of dystopian fiction.
Sinopse
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. It depicts a totalitarian world known as Gilead, portraying the subjection of women in a patriarchal society. The near-future New England setting illustrates a bleak portrayal of the world after the United States is overthrown by a fundamentalist group. Society is reorganized by the regime using a peculiar interpretation of some Old Testament ideas, and a new militarized, hierarchical model of social and religious fanaticism among its newly created social classes. The novel follows the story of a young woman, Offred, who struggles to maintain her identity. It depicts the rebellion of the women in her social class as their ability to read, write, own property, or handle money are lost. Most significantly, women are deprived of control over their own reproductive functions. The Handmaid's Tale was nominated for the first-ever Man Booker International Prize representing the best writers in contemporary fiction. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 35 internationally acclaimed works of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her numerous awards include the Governor General’s Award for The Handmaid’s Tale , and The Giller Prize and Italian Premio Mondello for Alias Grace . The Handmaid’s Tale , Cat’s Eye , Alias Grace , and Oryx and Crake were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, which she won with The Blind Assassin . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has been awarded the Norwegian Order of Literary Merit and the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres among many others; she is a Foreign Honorary Member for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Toronto.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Fine Book Cellar Ltd. (GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 1476183139202
- Título
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Autor
- Atwood, Margaret
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- McClelland and Stewart
- Data de publicação
- 1985
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- Atwood, Handmaid's Tale, First, Signed
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Modern First Editions; Signed First Editions; Books to Film; Dystopian Fiction; Margaret Atwood;
Termos da venda
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