The Handmaid's Tale

By Margaret Atwood, Renee Nault (illustrator),

Book cover of The Handmaid's Tale: Graphic Novel

Book description

The stunning graphic novel adaptation • A must-read and collector’s item for fans of “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times).
 
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In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American…

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The very first time I got my hands on this book, I read it in its entirety. It was the visuals that drew me in. It was almost as though the novel that inspired the Hulu series and the pages of the graphic novel were one and the same thing. It is one of the items in my book collection that I cherish the most.

When my teenaged granddaughter picked up this book, she also read it in a single sitting. While I was milling about the house, I looked in the living room and saw that she was completely…

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