The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Review or The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret
Atwood

The futuristic novel gets a literary update and a
feminist spin. Let me just say, this book is so cool. A
lot of Margaret Atwood's other novels are pretty
character-driven, dead-on impersonations of women
surviving a crisis moment. This one uses her literary
skills but also her vivid imagination to create a
surprisingly believable interpretation of the future a la
Ray Bradbury or George Orwell, where behavior is
supressed by the governement of course, but through a
bizarre division of labor, wherein a woman is not all
things but only one thing. She is either a nurse, a
queen, a baby machine, a prostitute, etc. Of course this
novel is about escaping that world.
The
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood was reviewed by
Melissa

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