Shiny Book Reveal

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		<img class="cover" src="img/cover.webp" alt="A cover for the book The Handmaid's Tale. The cover depicts a disembodied handmaid." eleventy:ignore />
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			<div class="title">The Handmaid's Tale</div>
			<hr>
			<p>
				In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right
				Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the
				monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist's
				nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money
				and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the
				housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their
				offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred
				(read: "of Fred"), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the
				chilling society came to be.
			</p>
			<blockquote>
				“A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker
				interconnections between politics and sex...just as the world of
				Orwell’s 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of Atwood’s
				handmaid!” <br /><i>Washington Post Book World</i>
			</blockquote>
		</div>
	</div>
	<h2>The Handmaid's Tale</h2>
	<div class="rating">
		<span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span>
	</div>
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