The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments.

ATWOOD, Margaret.

Item Number: 124934

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985-2019.

First Canadian edition and true first of Atwood’s modern masterpiece and it’s Booker Prize Award-winning sequel, The Testaments. Octavo, two original half cloth. The Handmaid’s Tale is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Anne- best wishes- Margaret Atwood.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tad Aronowicz. Jacket illustration by Gail Geltner. Author photograph by Graeme Gibson. The Testaments is signed by Margaret Atwood. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Noma Bar and Dutch Uncle. Embroidery to the endpapers by Kelly Hill. A desirable set.

“The Handmaid’s Tale is in the honorable tradition of Brave New World and other warnings of dystopia. It’s imaginative even audacious, and conveys a chilling sense of fear and menace” (The Globe and Mail). “The Handmaid’s Tale brings out the very best in Atwood—moral vision, biting humor and a poet’s imagination” (Chatelaine). This Booker Prize-nominated novel won the prestigious Canadian Governor General’s Award in 1985 and the inaugural Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. Anatomy of Wonder II-57. It is the basis for the dystopian drama web television series created by Bruce Miller. It has received critical acclaim and its first season won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from thirteen nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. It is the first show produced by Hulu to win a major award as well as the first series on a streaming service to win an Emmy for Outstanding Series. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama. Elisabeth Moss was also awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actress. Published in 2019, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, received The Booker Prize Award.