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3.5 stars
The Future is not always bright
Set in what is probably now our present, but in the 1980's was the near future, Atwood describes an American society in which women have lost their voice. Returning to an oppressive era, an extreme Puritanism, men have somehow gained total control. Women are at best subservient wives, and at worst... traitors to their own kind (the Aunts)? Incubators of future generations (the Handmaids)? Slaves (the Marthas)? Prostitutes (the Jezebels)? All of these things, or wor ...more
Set in what is probably now our present, but in the 1980's was the near future, Atwood describes an American society in which women have lost their voice. Returning to an oppressive era, an extreme Puritanism, men have somehow gained total control. Women are at best subservient wives, and at worst... traitors to their own kind (the Aunts)? Incubators of future generations (the Handmaids)? Slaves (the Marthas)? Prostitutes (the Jezebels)? All of these things, or wor ...more
Feb 13, 2016
Marie (UK)
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it was ok
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just boring we are nearly halfway before we learn anything more than what is on the back cover. Rambling literary style
Still a classic. This was my second time reading it--this time for a class on metafiction. Rereading it, I was once again struck by how much it builds onto and is in conversation with 1984. I found a new appreciation of Atwood's writing because it seems even more eerily relevant now after all that has transpired since 2016. This time around, I really enjoyed the prose itself and the craft put into the telling, both of which kind of went over my head on the first reading. I love the intertextuali
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rather bizarre futuristic tale.
Jan 01, 2014
Jim Townsend
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Karen
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