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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has 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.
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Vintage
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2010
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Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing In Anton Chekhov?s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man?s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous...
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