Margaret Atwood. HANDMAID'S TALE. Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 1st U.S. HC/DJ. Scarce

Description: Atwood, Margaret. THE HANDMAID'S TALE. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 1st U.S. edition (preceded by the 1st Canadian edition). With number line V 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 printed on the copyright page, which indicates that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing. This is NOT a book-club book. This is NOT an ex-library book. Buyer beware: There were a number of later printings of THE HANDMAID'S TALE that were published in this exact hardcover format. This is the real deal: the true 1st edition, 1st printing. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY TO SEE THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK AND THIS DUST JACKET. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is extremely well-known as a poet, a novelist, a literary critic, and essayist, an environmental activist, and an inventor. Since 1961 she has published 18 poetry books, 18 novels, 11 nonfiction books, 9 collections of short fiction, 8 children’s books, 2 graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won at least 100 awards for her writing and her other endeavors, including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General’s Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, the National Book Critics Lifetime Achievement Award and the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and “power politics.” Atwood is the founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents. Atwood has said that she knew she wanted to write professionally when she was 16 years old. In 1957 she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. She graduated in 1961 with a B.A. in English and minors in philosophy French. She began graduate studies at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship. She earned an M.A. from Radcliffe in 1962. She pursued a doctorate for 2 years, but did not finish her dissertation, which was entitled “The English Metaphysical Romance.” Atwood’s first book of poetry, DOUBLE PERSEPHONE, was published as a pamphlet by Hawkshead Press in 1961 and her first novel, THE EDIBLE WOMAN, was published in 1969. During the 1970s Atwood published several books of poetry and several novels, including SURFACING, LADY ORACLE, and LIFE BEFORE MAN. Her first short story collection, DANCING GIRLS, was published in 1977. Atwood’s literary reputation continued to rise in the 1980s with the publication of BODILY HARM, THE HANDMAID’S TALE (offered here), and CAT’S EYE. During the 1990s she published THE ROBBER BRIDE and ALIAS GRACE. In 2000 Atwood published her 10th novel, THE BLIND ASSASSIN. In the early 2000s, Atwood published the “MaddAddam Trilogy,” consisting of ORYX AND CRAKE, THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD, and MADDADDAM. In 2019, THE TESTAMENTS, a sequel to THE HANDMAID’S TALE was published. THE HANDMAID’S TALE has been adapted several times, including a 1990 film, a musical adaptation that was made into an opera in 2000, and a television series was shown in 2018 and 2019. Some of the awards and award nominations that Margaret Atwood has been honored with (a full summary would take several pages): 1965: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a University of Western Ontario President’s Medal Award winner. 1966: CIRCLE GAME. Governor General’s Award winner. 1967: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Centennial Commission Poetry Competition First Place winner. 1977: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named The Canadian Book- sellers Association Award winner. 1981: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Guggenheim Fellowship Award winner. 1986: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Governor General’s Award winner. 1986: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named an Ida Nudel Humanitarian Award winner. 1986: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Toronto Arts Award winner. 1986: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Aurora Award nominee for Best Novel. 1986: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Booker Prize nominee for Best Novel. 1986: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel. 1987: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Locus Award 4th-place winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1986: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner for Fiction. 1987: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1987: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Prometheus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1987: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 3rd-place winner for Best Novel. 1987: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner for Best Book. 1989: CAT’S EYE. Coles Book of the Year Award winner. 1992: WILDERNESS TIPS. Book of the Year Award winner from the Periodical Marketers of Canada. 1993: THE ROBBER BRIDE. Canadian Authors’ Association Novel of the Year winner. 1994: THE ROBBER BRIDE. James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award nominee for Best Novel. 1996: ALIAS GRACE. Booker Prize Shortlist nominee. 1996: THE HANDMAID’S TALE. James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award nominee for Best Retrospective Novel. 1997: ALIAS GRACE. Salon Magazine Best Fiction of the Year Award winner. 1997: ALIAS GRACE. James Triptree, Jr. Memorial Award nominee for Best Novel. 2000: THE BLIND ASSASSIN. Booker Prize winner for Best Novel. 2003: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Radcliffe Medal winner. 2003: ORYX AND CRAKE. Man Booker Prize Short-List nominee. 2005: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Banff Centre’s National Arts Award winner. 2010: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Crystal Award winner given by the World Economic Forum. 2010: THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD. John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee for Best Novel. 2012: IN OTHER WORLDS: SF AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION. Locus Award nominee for Best Nonfiction. 2012: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Canadian Booksellers’ Lifetime Achievement Award winner. 2014: MADDADDAM. Locus Award 4th-place winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2015: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named an Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Imagination Service to Society. 2015: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named an American Academy Arts and Letters Electee as an honorary Member. 2017: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named an Ivan Sandrof Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2017: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Carl Sandburg Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2017: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Franz Kafka International Literary Prize winner. 2017: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named the winner of a Nebula Award for Creator. 2020: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a British Academy’s President’s Medal winner. 2020: THE TESTAMENTS. Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2020: THE TESTAMENTS. Kurd Lasswitz Preis Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2020: THE TESTAMENTS. Dragon Award winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2024: Margaret Atwood is honored by being named a Writer in the World Prize Award winner. Clearly Margaret Atwood is one of the best, most famous, most important and most collectible authors in the world (and of all time, for that matter). From the dust jacket: “ . . . THE HANDMAID'S TALE is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population . . . The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. THE HANDMAID'S TALE is funny, unexpected,, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best . . . “ From the rear flap of the dust jacket: “ . . . Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She has lived in many other cities, including Boston, Vancouver, Montreal, and London, and has traveled extensively. THE HANDMAID'S TALE was begun in West Berlin and was finished in Alabama . . . Author of more than twenty books, including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, Atwood is perhaps best known for her five novels, THE EDIBLE WOMAN, SURFACING, LADY ORACLE, LIFE BEFORE MAN, and BODILY HARM, and for her two collections of short fiction, DANCING GIRLS and BLUEBEARD'S EGG. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries . . . She lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson and their daughter Jess . . . “ From the rear panel of the dust jacket: Advance praise for Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE “ . . . Sending me THE HANDMAID’S TALE was like offering Persephone an open pomegranate in Hades. An irresistible, fatal gift. I devoured it; it devoured me. Tell Atwood, praised be . . . “ — Lois Gould “ . . . This visionary novel, in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theocracy, can be read as a companion volume of Orwell’s 1984 — its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile . . . “ — E.L. Doctorow “ . . . An accomplished novel so powerful as to shut out events in the real world, while answering forever the question of whether there is such a thing as a woman’s novel . . . “ — Judith Rossner “ . . . In Margaret Atwood’s most powerful, fully realized and moving novel since SURFACING, she gives us a society in which all of the New Right’s preaching about women is put into law and put into practice, and a heroine who is brave, touching, and wry. This is an arresting triumph of the imagination that should pique the curiosity of male readers and must necessarily be of consuming interest to every woman now alive . . . “ — Marge Piercy ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I grade books and dust jackets: fine, near fine, very good, good, fair, and poor. I describe all faults. If you sell books on EBAY (or anywhere else), it is de rigueur not to list 1st printings of book club books as 1st editions (unless they ARE the 1st edition, which occurs only occasionally); also, a 1st edition, 7th printing, is not a 1st edition. Ex-library books must be noted as such since generally they are of little value to the collector of 1st editions. Condition is also very important to those collectors. Books and dust jackets must be described in detail. In other words, it is incumbent upon the SELLER to know what is and is not a 1st edition. Mistakes can be made (and corrected), of course, but if you DON'T KNOW, don't try to sell a book as a 1st edition. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONDITION: A FINE book in a FINE dust jacket. The book is tight and square in its blue-green quarter-cloth and gray boards binding with bright silver lettering on the spine of the book. The book has the correct gray endpapers. There is no writing in the book; no bookplates; no remainder marks. There are no chips or tears or wrinkles to the the dust jacket; unusual thus. This is an unusually nice copy of this book that normally shows up in well-read and worn condition and with a dust jacket that is rubbed, torn, and worn; this copy is the opposite of that with virtually no flaws. The very famous dust jacket artwork is by the excellent artist Fred Marcellino. 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