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The handmaid's tale [electronic resource] / Margaret Atwood.

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  • ISBN: 9781551994963 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1551994968 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
  • Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2010.

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"Emblem Editions"
Source of Description Note:
Description based on title detail screen (OverDrive, viewed Dec. 17, 2012).
Subject: Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Misogyny > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Genre: Science fiction.
Electronic books.

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Nominated for the first ever Man Booker International Prize representing the best writers in contemporary fiction, Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 35 internationally acclaimed works of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her numerous awards include the Governor General’s Award for The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Giller Prize and Italian Premio Mondello for Alias Grace. The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, and Oryx and Crake were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, which she won with The Blind Assassin. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has been awarded the Norwegian Order of Literary Merit and the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres among many others; she is a Foreign Honorary Member for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Toronto.


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