Chris Mayes reviewed The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. …
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3 stars
It took forever for this book to get going, but it turned out to be a pretty gripping paranoid journey through a newly totalitarian state. The 1980s writing perspective adds a Cold War-era flavor to the cultural references.