3 novels by Margaret Atwook. All are hard covers with unclipped dust jackets. All are first editions, first printings with complete number lines. In Other Worlds and The Testaments are first US edition. Assassin is Canadian first. Condition of all 3 is excellent. You can't tell they have been read. My home is smoke and fragrance free.
THE BLIND ASSASSIN
This novel won the 2000 Booker Prize for literature.
The novel begins just after WWI when Laura Chase drives her car off a bridge. The story of Laura is told by her older sister Iris, perhaps not the most loving or desirable sibling. She publishes a book, "The Blind Assassin" that is a science fiction fantasy romance that intertwines with the events of the real Laura Chase. The book turned the dead Laura into a cult figure.
The book has 2000 copyright, published by McClelland and Stewart. This is a first edition, first printing with complete number line. ISBN is 0-7710-0863-5. The book is 521 pages.
THE TESTAMENTS
This is the sequel to the infamous The Handmaid's Tale of the TV series.
Published by Nan A Talese/Doubleday in 2019. First edition/first printing with complete number line. ISBN 978-0-385-54378-1. It is 419 pages.
This book picks up fifteen years after Handmaid's Tale ends. It is three diaries of three women; two in Gilead and the kidnapped baby, now a teenager, living in Toronto Canada. Gilead is starting to crumble from within. There is an international hunt for the daughter of Offred, and a few lucky Gilead escapees make it to Canada. Many of Handmaids characters are back as are some of the commanders and their families.
IN OTHER WORLDS SF and the Human Imagination
This is not really a novel but Margaret Atwood getting to the root of her fascination with science fiction (she calls it speculative fiction) in a series of essays and previously unpublished lectures. Margaret has taken the distopian or futuristic route in her own writing.
The book is published by Nan A Talese/Doubleday in 2011. The ISBN # is 978-0-385-53396-6. It is 255 pages.
