If any ordinary writer had written The Handmaid's Tale, then it would have been stuck in science fiction and nobody but science fiction would read it--cf Sherri Tepper's GRASS. But because Margaret Atwood wrote it, it's literature and people have to read it in school.
That's one of the books I think is vastly overrated--The Handmaid's Tale.
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Date: 2009-03-20 03:57 pm (UTC)That's one of the books I think is vastly overrated--The Handmaid's Tale.