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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale

(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

By Margaret Atwood, Harold (EDT), Margaret Eleanor/ Bloom

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| Library Binding | 9780791059265

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Atwood's best-known novel depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a futuristic society in which women have become property.

The title, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-ceContinue

Atwood's best-known novel depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a futuristic society in which women have become property.

The title, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Margaret Atwood, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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  • 1 person find this helpful

    Must. Read.
    Why all (religious) fanaticism is so bad for the world!

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    Sengaia said on Apr 27, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • A good book for all tastes

    This was enlightening, moving, disturbing and wonderful. I enjoyed reading it. I think it has something for everyone.

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    TARU837 said on May 4, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • mixed feelings

    Mixed feelings. I really enjoyed the way it is written and the way in which Atwood is able to induce suspense even when nothing is happening. it is, in fact, a book about waiting, about stillness. but still, the author is able to create movement simply through feelings. Maybe I have mixed feelings b ... (continue)

    Mixed feelings. I really enjoyed the way it is written and the way in which Atwood is able to induce suspense even when nothing is happening. it is, in fact, a book about waiting, about stillness. but still, the author is able to create movement simply through feelings. Maybe I have mixed feelings because the topic is extremely involving for a woman, not easy to digest, and the genre is not my favorite. However, the ending is really clever, and I loved how it reveals some details that invert what you have been thinking of the plot so far. for example, I thought that women and men were both in a bad and subdued condition till the very end. The final chapter changed everything, still
    without giving us all the details about the theocracy depicted, leaving us free to think about the world we are living in an drawing our own consequences and making the right comparisons.

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    Chhavi said on Jul 12, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    Wonderful, minimalistic, visionary

    My favourite quote from the book that shows how claustrophobic one's thoughts grow out of solitude and captivity:"Minimalist life: pleasure is an egg". See: http://www.shmoop.com/handmaids-tale/symbolism-imagery.html

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    Fabioruxo said on Feb 23, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • A powerful, gripping story reveals the author's vast knowledge of the dynamics of totalitarian regimes. Also, the historical notes at the end make the novel even more terrifyingly realistic.

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    Caterina :) said on Jan 4, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Distressing…

    This story is extraordinary...chilling, but extraordinary. As with all of her books, Atwood as a canny ability to insert the very basics of human nature into the most outrageous and horrifying of environments, which is essentially what makes this book believable. I challenge any reader to keep the c ... (continue)

    This story is extraordinary...chilling, but extraordinary. As with all of her books, Atwood as a canny ability to insert the very basics of human nature into the most outrageous and horrifying of environments, which is essentially what makes this book believable. I challenge any reader to keep the chills at bay when they come to the part of the story where it is explained how the United States is overtaken by a group of religious fanatics and the world as we know it is mutated to a dystopian hell.

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    ReadingQueen 12/17 said on Aug 10, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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