The Handmaid's Tale (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)) (MP3 CD)

The Handmaid's Tale (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)) By Margaret Atwood, Claire Danes (Read by) Cover Image

The Handmaid's Tale (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)) (MP3 CD)

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I was so excited to find that The Handmaid's Tale made it on this year's (2018) Great American Reads List! Margaret Atwood's beautifully crafted book describes female sexuality, the need for love, and the dangers of theocratic society. Told from first-person perspective of the handmaid Offred, Atwood's novel is gripping, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking. I enjoyed every minute of it. Yay, distopian literature!

— Abby Walker

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018

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.

Product Details ISBN: 9781480560109
ISBN-10: 1480560103
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication Date: July 22nd, 2014
Language: English
Series: Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)