TY - BOOK AU - Atwood, Margaret Eleanor TI - The handmaid's tale / SN - 9780099511663 U1 - FIC 813.54 ATW PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Dystopias KW - Handmaidens KW - Fiction KW - Reproduction N2 - In the Republic of Gilead, Offred is a handmaid. As one of the few women left with functioning ovaries, the one role allowed her is to breed. if she deviates, she will be hanged at the Wall or sent out to die of radiation sickness. But Offred has clear memories of the time before when women were free and she is determined to find a way out ER -