BOOK REVIEW: The Handmaid’s Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Some books are so famous, so ubiquitous in the culture, that you feel you have read them well before you ever read them. You feel, in fact, that you don’t need to read them. This is what kept me from reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) for so long. Then, as with so many other famous books, I read it and found it to be very different from what I was expecting.

Read writer John Pistelli's REVIEW: https://johnpistelli.com/2018/05/17/margaret-atwood-the-handmaids-tale/