The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. The Handmaid's Tale is an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" ( New York Times) Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its image and its forecast. About the Book Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaid's Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" ( New York Times).
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