The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
Atwood, Margaret
- Publisher: Nan A. Talese
- Date published: 2019
- ISBN: 9780385543781
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond ink-stamp at first free endpaper; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Picks up where The Handmaid's Tale left off, 15 years hence. 419 pp., including a note of acknowledgments. Rightfully a New York Times bestseller, and she being the winner of the 2000 Man Booker prize. According to the publisher, "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."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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