![]() ![]() ![]() The book, set in New England in the near future, posits a Christian fundamentalist theocratic regime in the former United States that arose as a response to a fertility crisis. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. The Handmaid’s Tale, acclaimed dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. ![]() Those things we hold so right and true might. ![]() In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm façade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from the patron saint of feminist. But Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale reminds us, in fiction, of how close society must always be to collapse. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. The film did a great job capturing the essence of betrayal and loss the women of this society were facing. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its world, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population. The Handmaids Tale is a feminist dystopian novel. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. Summary: The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. ![]()
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