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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