Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
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Language
English
Description
Set in a future society that has reverted to, and gone beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, this story is told through the eyes of Offred, a so-called handmaid. While her job as a surrogate mother to a sterile marriage conveys an elevated status, she longs to escape.
2) Surfacing
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English
Description
A story of a woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in morthern Quebec.
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Snowman tries to piece together what has taken place; mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now searches for supplies in a wasteland.