Bookreview: THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK Title: The Handmaid's Tale Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: Vintage (Penguin Random House) Price: £8.99 Pages: 324 Genre: Dystopia, Feminism Year: 1985 BACK OF THE BOOK Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to bread. 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. MY THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK It took me a while to get into this book because the main character, Offred, felt so entirely different to the last protagonist I've read about. (click here to see my review on the last book I read, "The Bell Jar") The writing style was also quite different, which is why I neede...