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Goldsboro Books

9781784743772

The Testaments - Limited edition - flawed

The Testaments - Limited edition - flawed

by Margaret Atwood

Publisher Chatto & Windus

Genre: General Fiction

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  • Hardcover
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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Please note: This copy comes in a cardboard box that's torn and any purchase will be made with the understanding that the copy received will be imperfect and are firm sale.

    This special edition of The Testaments by Margaret Atwood has been produced with a small print run of just 100 copies.

    Housed in a clam shell-style box, this unique version is clothbound with debossed text on the front. The inside of the box sees hand-marbled paper created by artist Jemma Lewis, which was produced in batches of just 25 of each design. The die cut tipped-in page on the box mirrors the design on the clothbound back cover, and to complete the look, the printed ends and swiss binding seamlessly link to compliment the overall design.

    Often we are told that a book is 'impossible to put down' but in this case we might just have found one where this is actually true... When we started reading this we very quickly knew that there would be no way to stop and in one heart-stopping session we finished. This is blockbuster science fiction of the highest order. It is originally and inventively told, drawing comparisons to books such as World War Z and The Martian. It is fresh, witty and although the scope of the story is huge, it is emotional on many personal levels. With a film already in the works, this debut and first of a series, will be a bestseller the world over is a must own book for any book lover.

    T'he overall story unfolds easily... and quickly draws the reader... but it is a very different experience than a standard third- or first-person narrative' (SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW)

    'This stellar début novel...masterfully blends together elements of sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction.' (KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)

About the book

Margaret Atwoods dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaids Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaids 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 voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.

As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she 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

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.

Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth ­ in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.

Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

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