TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The handmaid's tale SN - 0099740915 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Dystopias KW - Fiction KW - fast N2 - In a world where America is ruled by a repressive Bible-inspired regime and past pollution means only 1% of women can bear children, anyone committing a crime and found to be a potential mother is put into an institution and is sentenced to become a Handmaid, duty bound to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned ER -