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THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Margaret Atwood
Read by Claire Danes

Claire Danes sparkles in this performance. At once timeless and timely, this dystopian novel studies, among other things, the role of women in a society that has stripped them of their rights. Danes voices Offred—a “handmaid” whose sole purpose is to bear children for a government leader and his wife—with a kaleidoscope of emotions. Danes frequently lends Offred a hesitant, somewhat bewildered tone that suits the handmaid’s situation. Offred has occasional memories of the times before women’s freedoms were erased; she reveals how her carefree youth transformed into the stifling present-day reality. Danes’s Offred is complex, and her flashes of intense strength highlight her vulnerability. This is a consuming listen, thanks to Danes’s emotional subtleties. L.B.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2013 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2012]

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Fiction • 11 hrs. • Unabridged • ©1985

Digital Download • Audible, Inc. • 2012
DD ISBN   $24.95


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