{"id":1591,"date":"2019-04-10T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2019-04-10T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:50:40","slug":"review-the-handmaids-tale-hardcover-by-margaret-atwood-illustrated-by-renee-nault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-handmaids-tale-hardcover-by-margaret-atwood-illustrated-by-renee-nault\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale by Margaret Atwood, illustrated by Ren\u00e9e Nault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Margaret Atwood&#8217;s The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale has been in the news a lot lately.  Her book is now considered a classic, a recent television adaptation was a huge success, and a sequel is due out later this year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book was first published in 1985, a time when many in the U.S. and other western societies assumed that the women&#8217;s movement was making changes that could never be reversed, and that society was gradually becoming more liberal and more tolerant.  Today, more than three decades later, Atwood&#8217;s dystopian vision increasingly seems far closer than we would have imagined when the book was first written.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This graphic novel adaption is done beautifully, and shows Gilead (the country that used to be the United States) almost as a dream &#8212; and a bad dream at that. Highly recommended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Atwood&#8217;s The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale has been in the news a lot lately. Her book is now considered a classic, a recent television adaptation was a huge success, and a sequel is due out later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}