The History of Production of the Works of Harold Pinter
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood
Prose (fiction)
English
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred 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.
Adapted into a screenplay by Harold Pinter.
Date of Composition: April 1984 - 10 June 1985 Confidence Level
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McClelland and Stewart on (1985)
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Penguin Publisher
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1032806/the-handmaid-s-tale/9781784708238.html
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Plot summary from publisher's page.
Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid’s Tale, Literary Hub article, 2018.
https://lithub.com/margaret-atwood-on-how-she-came-to-write-the-handmaids-tale/
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