Tuesday, September 5, 2017

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

I remembered reading this years before, but I thought it was long before it's 1985 publication date.  I remembered it as a feminist story (Did I have time for feminist thoughts with two small children in 1985?) - women reduced to the value of their uteruses,  But this time it read more as a political tale about power and its abuses.  I didn't see the Netflix series but would be interested to see where they made the emphasis. A different focus for dystopian literature.  It was interesting that the city? state? country? was named Gilead.  Atwood always gives you something to ponder and discuss.

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