TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The handmaid's tale T2 - Vintage classics SN - 9780099511663 PY - 1956/// KW - Man-woman realtionships KW - Fiction KW - Women KW - Dystopias KW - Misogyny N2 - Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs ER -