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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Start date: September 22, 2019

Finish date: October 12, 2019

Why we're reading this: Episode 54: Gilead: Meaning in Place
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Jan 04, 2020 J.E. Rowney rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I have had this book on my TBR pile for many years, but somehow I never got around to reading it. I had never even read an Atwood novel until I read Oryx and Crake last year. I know. Incredible! I was determined to read The Handmaid’s Tale this year, and I have actually been pushed to action by the newly formed book club that I have joined.

All I can say is that I am disappointed...

...in myself for not having read it sooner. I loved pretty much everything about this book. It’s a great story, and ...more

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May 05, 2019 Shadira rated it it was amazing

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The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Offred – not her real name, but the patronymic she has been given by the new regime in an oppressive parallel America of the future – and her role as a Handmaid. The Handmaids are forced to provide children by proxy for infertile women of a higher social status, the wives of Commanders. They undergo regular medical tests, and in many ways become invisible, the sum total of their biological parts.

Offred remembers her life before the inception of G ...more

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