Margaret Atwood, the frazzled-haired Canadian author of the blockbuster The Handmaid’s Tale franchise is set to make another fortune in an author tour to her bien-pensant admirers in the Antipodes.
Atwood’s tiresome dystopian “chick lit” theme (it’s Orwell’s 1984 with women rather than men being oppressed by Big Brother) has already earned her a $20 million purse from the Tale’s book, film and TV series rights.
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