The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (First Edition)

Atwood, Margaret

ISBN 10: 0385543786 / ISBN 13: 9780385543781

Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York, 2019

About this Item

New York: Nan A. Talese (2019). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (1985). The novel is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, narrated by Aunt Lydia, a character from the previous novel. Atwood's fifteenth novel. Co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, shared with Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other." Atwood previously won the Booker in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin." F2600/S.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (First Edition)
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385543786
• ISBN 13: 9780385543781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

AMAZON EDITORS’ PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2019

The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
 
Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia.  Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.
 
With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She lives in Toronto.