TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The handmaid's tale SN - 9781784873189 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Vintage Classics KW - Fiction KW - Dystopia N2 - 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 ER -