The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Paperback
(Vintage Books USA, Sept. 1, 2005)
Offers offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.