Title from web page. Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel. Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program on Hulu in 2017. Special features: Script to screen; Hope in Gilead. Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes.
Summary:
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1025335516
Locations:
WUPB305 -- Arnolds Park Public Library (Arnolds Park)
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