The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Narrator: Claire Danes
Pages: 11
Published by Inc.
Publication Date July 20, 2012
Genres: Dystopian
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception
I read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood as a teenager and was impressed. It was well written and disturbing. Although, to be honest, I think some of it was over my head. Because of the hype from the Hulu series, (which I now need to see) I listened to the dystopian novel. The Handmaid’s Tale is engrossing and even more disturbing now given our current political dynamics. Claire Danes was an excellent choice as a narrator. Her pacing was perfect and her tone was easy to listen to. The only issue I could find with the novel is that one loses all track of time as they are too entranced by the story to pay attention to anything else. Personally, I feel that this is a book everyone should read regardless of the format.
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