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Article: Margaret Atwood's chilling new tale of a future America
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 2, 1986
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The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood. Houghton Mifflin. $16.95.
Everything that happens in Margaret Atwood's fifth novel has
already taken place, or is currently taking place, somewhere in the
world.
If you read the publisher's note that explains this after you've
read the book, you'll probably experience a moment of stunned
silence. Everything? Can that really be true? For The Handmaid's
Tale is an eerily inhuman story. The citizens in this fictional
country are regimented, categorized, uniformed till they're virtually
faceless; some of them have every privilege while others are no more
than physical conveniences; disbelievers are torn apart by religious
zealots . . . .
Well, ...