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8vo. pp. 324. cloth. A fine copy in unclipped dw. First Edition. Atwood is one of Canada's best known and most prolific authors, who has been honoured with an unequaled number of national and international awards and honorary degrees. Her dystopian novel set in a future totalitarian America run by religious fundamentalists, where fertile women are enslaved as breeders to the country's leaders, brought her international acclaim and financial success, winning the Governor General's Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Commonwealth Literary Prize, and being shortlisted for the Booker Prize (UK) and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway Prize (Paris). The work was made into a film in 1990, an acclaimed opera by the Royal Danish Opera Society in 2000, and recently was adapted for television. Margaret Atwood has honorary degrees from numerous national and international institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and the Sorbonne. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and in 2012 she was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canada.

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian state resembling a theonomy that has overthrown the United States government. The novel focuses on the journey of the handmaid Offred, her life in this regime, and her role in society to produce children against her will.