The Testaments

TitleThe Testaments
Year for Search2019
AuthorsAtwood, Margaret [Eleanor](b. 1939)
Pagination419 pp.
Date Published2019
PublisherNan A. Talese/Doubleday
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsCanadian author, Female author
Annotation

Sequel to 1985 Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale that begins during the establishment of Gilead but the shifts to the internal and external opposition to it, and it ends with a lecture at “The Thirteenth Symposium on Gilead Studies” from the same professor whose lecture ended The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel was serialized on BBC Radio 4 in fifteen installments between September 16 and October 4, 2019.

Additional Publishers

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 2019. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. An audiobook was released simultaneously with the print version. 

Info Notes

The novel was serialized on BBC Radio 4 in fifteen installments between September 16 and October 4, 2019. 

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Canadian female author (b. 1939)

Full Text

2019 Atwood, Margaret [Eleanor] (b. 1939). The Testaments. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 419 pp. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 2019. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. An audiobook was released simultaneously with the print version. PSt

Sequel to 1985 Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale that begins during the establishment of Gilead but the shifts to the internal and external opposition to it, and it ends with a lecture at “The Thirteenth Symposium on Gilead Studies” from the same professor whose lecture ended The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel was serialized on BBC Radio 4 in fifteen installments between September 16 and October 4, 2019.