The Handmaid's Tale

Publisher Marketing: Audie Award, Fiction, 2013 Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes ("Temple Grandin," "Homeland") gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time. After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression. "The Handmaid's Tale" is part of Audible s A-List Collection, featuring the world s most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star had a hand in selecting." Review Citations: Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 976 (EAN 9780385490818, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 587 (EAN 9780385490818, Paperback) Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 98 (EAN 9780385490818, Paperback) Entertainment Weekly 07/09/2010 pg. 81 (EAN 9780385490818, Paperback) Entertainment Weekly 06/28/2013 pg. 28 (EAN 9780385490818, Paperback) Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 98 (EAN 9780385490818, Paperback) New York Review of Books 11/02/2006 pg. 18 (EAN 9780307264602, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 721 (EAN 9780307264602, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 22 (EAN 9780307264602, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 876 (EAN 9780307264602, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 26 (EAN 9780307264602, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/01/2005 pg. 188 (EAN 9780563524632, Compact Disc) Audio File 12/01/2012 pg. 51 (EAN 9780563524632, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal 06/01/2005 pg. 188 (EAN 9780563524588, Analog Audio Cassette) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 617 (EAN 9780449911532, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Atwood, Margaret Margaret Atwood is the internationally renowned author of such novels as "Oryx and Crake, Alias Grace", and "The Edible Woman". She is a novelist and a poet, and has also authored short story collections, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts, and books. Contributor Bio:  Danes, Claire Claire Danes is a multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actress. Her many celebrated performances include Homeland's Carrie Mathison and starring roles in the films Romeo+Juliet, Shopgirl, and Temple Grandin. She shares a SAG nomination with the cast of The Hours. She narrated Michael Cunningham's "The Snow Queen "andMargaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale", which won an Audie for fiction.