Atwood, Margaret — The Testaments

New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. It gets worse (and then better). Margaret Atwood's long-awaited, greatly acclaimed follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, and it delivers by answering piquant questions: what does fundamentalist religion do to social formations? How did Gilead fall? What are the common elements of totalitarian systems. An eventual co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, alongside Girl, Woman, Other. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. A sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked copy, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. 419 pp. including Author's Acknowledgments.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,