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Margaret Atwood reveals a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale' will be released next year, inspired by...
....modern America and women's disdain for Donald Trump
Praise be - Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to her best-selling novel 'The Handmaid's Tale'.
'The Testaments', which was inspired by modern America and a certain president, is slated to be published September 10, 2019.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Canadian author wrote: 'Dear Readers, everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book.
'Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.'
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'The Testaments' will be set 15 years after original narrator Offred's final scene in 'The Handmaid's Tale' and will rely on three narrators.
Atwood said the new book will not be connected to the Emmy-winning Hulu adaptation of Handmaid's, which continued beyond where the book left off in its second season.
While the press release didn't specifically mention the president, it noted how 'The Handmaid's Tale' had become 'a symbol of the movement against him, standing for female empowerment and resistance in the face of misogyny and the rolling back of women's rights around the world'.
'The Testaments', which was inspired by modern America and a certain president, is slated to be published September 10, 2019.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Canadian author wrote: 'Dear Readers, everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book.
'Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.'
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'The Testaments' will be set 15 years after original narrator Offred's final scene in 'The Handmaid's Tale' and will rely on three narrators.
Atwood said the new book will not be connected to the Emmy-winning Hulu adaptation of Handmaid's, which continued beyond where the book left off in its second season.
While the press release didn't specifically mention the president, it noted how 'The Handmaid's Tale' had become 'a symbol of the movement against him, standing for female empowerment and resistance in the face of misogyny and the rolling back of women's rights around the world'.
Praise be - I reckon Sarah Saunders will be an Aunt Lydia!!!
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