Books@Random | The Handmaid's Tale: Readers' Group Companion - 1 views
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The roots of the book go back to my study of the American Puritans. The society they founded in America was not a democracy as we know it, but a theocracy.
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novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination
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This is a book about what happens when certain casually held attitudes about women are taken to their logical conclusions.
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