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Marg Zavaros Chronicle Special Margaret Atwood, the high priestess of Canadian literature, has suceeded in writing another controversial book. After past sucâ€" esses with ‘‘The Edible Woman" and "Surfacâ€" ing," her new novel, "The Handmaid‘s Tale,"‘ is set in a future rightâ€"wing society in Cambridge, Mass. known as the Republic of Gilead. After a bloody coup d‘état, a governing religious fundamentalist class called Comâ€" manders of the Faithful enforce supreme conâ€" trol. _ It is here in this future society, women are categorized into roles and colorâ€"coded as to their corresponding role. _ _ . ETMS OM NeR enp enenieeentet C et s Commanders‘ wives wear blue, their daughâ€" ters, white, wives of poor men wear stripes and handmaid‘s, long scarlet cloaks. The central figure, Offred a handmaid, is delegated the role of surrogate mother. Her past is mentioned but not explored. The reader is told her daughter has been taken from her and her husband may have escaped to free Canada. 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Atw‘(;ga‘;-.;a.s{rrv\b;/éls have never evoked such shock from readers, yet she rarely succumbs to rhetorical clichés. _ However, there may be waves of one kind or another when the American edition of ‘"The Handmaid‘s Tale" goes on sale there this month. The book has been widely publicized in the United States and the January edition of Vogue magazine gave Atwood a twoâ€"page spread about her life and writing. qny‘uval;:;t-i;é Canadians to think of her at this time ... is this the new Atwood â€" prophet, historican, soothâ€"sayer? A â€" X‘s" twh_e’b:)vo;k-g-râ€"l;\as to a depressing and abrupt end, Offred is ushered by the security police into a black van to an unknown fate. Nor does Atwood let the reader down so easily. She adds an imaginary symposium held in the future by historians and soâ€" ciologists who look back to the long vanished Gilead to ponder its rise and fall,. 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