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Book Review of The Handmaid's Tale (Handmaid's Tale, Bk 1)

The Handmaid's Tale (Handmaid's Tale, Bk 1)
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The Handmaid's Tale is an elaborate but disturbing product of Atwood's imagination. She developed a woman's version of 1984....where, in the unknown future, women are given useful yet degrading positions in society and all the power goes to men. This book is a wonderful story.