![]() ![]() ''I delayed writing it for about three years after I got the idea because I felt it was too crazy,'' Miss Atwood says, sitting in the offices of her publisher, Houghton Mifflin. ![]() Thus begins the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's controversial and critically acclaimed new novel, ''The Handmaid's Tale.'' Selected for their ability to breed, have become slaves - Handmaids -forced to try to conceive through joyless copulation in bizarre menages a trois with their Commanders and the Commanders' barren wives. Pollution has sharply reduced fertility, and certain women, Women may no longer possess jobs, or property, or money of any kind. He President and Congress have been assassinated by right-wing religious fanatics who have overthrown the Government and set upĪ monotheocratic dictatorship based on biblical principles in a land they now call Gilead. ![]() No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN ![]()
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