Like Gilead, it is overwhelming, inescapable, and allows for no light (or hope) to get through.īonus Audio Cassette Lettered Edition Pictured The display type, Kak, has its own oppressive qualities: It’s heavy and dark and looming, always making its presence known. Her William Text is based on the types of William Caslon (1692–1766), whose letterforms would have been familiar to Puritan New Englanders from whom the founders of Gilead seemed to take so much inspiration. Given that The Handmaid’s Tale is about the oppression of women, we thought it important that the types we used to set the book be designed by a woman. The Artist edition is signed by Ken Cunningham. The Numbered and Lettered editions are signed by Margaret Atwood, Sophie Mackintosh, Jan Garden Castro and Ken Cunningham. The editions measure 6” x 9” and include an introduction by Sophie Mackintosh, an afterword by Jan Garden Castro and six full color illustrations by Ken Cunningham. The signed limited edition of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is presented in three states: Artist, Numbered and Lettered. It has been adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, and a 2017 television series. The Handmaid’s Tale won the 1985 Governor General’s Award, and the first Arthur C. I did not wish to be accused of dark, twisted inventions, or of misrepresenting the human potential for deplorable behavior.” I would not include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist. In 2018, Atwood reflected on her process writing The Handmaid’s Tale: “I made a rule for myself. Unpredictable, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid’s Tale is an uncompromising portrait of totalitarianism and institutional misogyny. The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence.
The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population. For in their wake, the land that was once the United States has become the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birth rate by reverting to and going beyond the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. She is allowed out only once a day to the market, she is not permitted to read and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant as her very existence is only valued if her ovaries are viable. It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. One of the most chilling cautionary tales of the 20th century, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a tour de force of dystopian fiction.
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