The Handmaid's Tale Novel by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States govement, the novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which comprises a series of coected storiesThe Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Goveor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. The book has been adapted into a film (1990), an opera (2000), a TV series (2017), and other mediaI’d like to have Luke ... ''here, in this bedroom whileI’m getting dressed, so Icould have a fight with himAbsurd, but that’s what Iwant. An argument, aboutwho should put the dishes inthe dishwasher, whose tu itis to sort the laundry, cleanthe toilet; something dailyand unimportant in the bigscheme of t h i n g s . Wecould even have a fightabout that, about unimportantimportant. What a luxury it''  ... .would be