Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel, The Handmaid's Tale, author Margaret E. Atwood envisions a frightening future for Harvard. A feminist poet and writer, Atwood received her master's degree from Radcliffe College in 1962 and spent two stints studying at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the early...
...novel depicts a dystopian future in which the United States has been replaced by a theocratic regime called the Republic of Gilead. Envisioned as a Puritan totalitarian state, secret police enforce strict religious observance in Gilead...
...story focuses on a woman named Offred, a handmaid whose only role in life is to conceive children for a man and his wife to raise. No small task in a world in which nuclear waste and pesticides have ensured that many women can no longer bear children. The novel follows Offred as she remembers sorrowfully her pre-Gilead days and struggles with a decision to rebel against her society...
...There were too many other people writing the great American novel," he says...
...shooting ends this compassionate, clear-eyed, expertly written first novel, a death that several lives have been stumbling toward for a quarter-century. Ned Rose is the title figure, a no-hoper in early middle age, who checks the oxygen levels in the 16 ponds of a Mississippi catfish farm. Daisy is his estranged sister. They are poor and white, though not white trash. Mack Bell owns the farm and owns Ned too. Mack has labor troubles. He summons Ned, as he has been doing since high school. Retribution explodes in the blast of a gun. Daisy, a figure strong...