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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited...

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...avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way, this journey into a darkness that is composed of women, a woman, who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward. She watches him from within. We're all watching him. It's the one thing we can really do, and it is not for nothing: if he were to falter, fail, or die, what would become of us? No wonder he's like a boot, hard on the outside, giving shape to a pulp of tenderfoot. That's just a wish. I've been watching him for some time and he's given no evidence, of softness. But watch out, Commander, I tell him in my head. I've got my eye on you. One false move and I'm dead. Still, it must be hell, to be a man, like that. It must be just fine. It must be hell. It must be very silent. The water appears, the Commander drinks it. "Thank you," he says. Cora rustles back into place. The Commander pauses, looking down, scanning the page. He takes his time, as if unconscious of us. He's like a man toying with a steak, behind a...

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All comments: 9

bananna98310

10 Oct 2011 18:17:35

The jumbled order was hard to follow. It kept me interested but not really satisfied. The book does chronicle a proverbial "frog in boiling water", as society is systematically overwritten and freedoms stollen for the supposed "good" of all.
Prevalent in countries around the world we are sitting in water that is too hot already, waiting for some motivation to jump out and risk the fire.

marls_2

01 Dec 2010 15:18:29

grt..a moving story :D

lauragal

13 Oct 2010 00:53:23

great book. wish they make a sequel to show what happen to her though

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29 Sep 2010 12:32:10

great book!

15 Sep 2010 09:05:27

Another best seller

maria.oana19

13 Sep 2010 11:40:04

this really worth reading

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face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full. The white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen