The testaments
Title:
The testaments
Author:
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
ISBN:
9780593149096
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, c2019.
Physical Description:
xii, 562 p. ; 24 cm
Abstract:
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
Subject:
| Surrogate mothers -- Fiction. |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. |
| Misogyny -- Fiction. |
| Women -- Fiction. |
Summary:
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.