# The Handmaid's Tale

**Author(s):** Renee Nault
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** graphic-novel, literary-fiction, sci-fi, romance, dystopian
**Pages:** 240
**Publisher:** Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780385544856
**ISBN-10:** 0385544855
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-handmaids-tale-c89h2a

## Description

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Dystopia, War