Three decades later, the rise of Donald Trump and other far-right politicians in the US saw a resurgence of interest in the book.
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor and environmental activist Margaret Atwood.So why has Atwood returned to Gilead in 2019? When I see her at 10 in the morning after the midnight launch, she looks remarkably fresh and alert. She is asked a long, rambling question about her reasons for writing the sequel.
] was and who was going to be in it," she says,"I think probably they were terrified. It does sound like a mad idea." This founder is Aunt Lydia, whom viewers will recognise, played with formidable menace by Ann Dowd in the television series.The Testaments "Bruce Miller and I talk on the phone and I read the scripts and make notes on them. I don't have any actual power. I have 'influence'. They have a writing room and nobody gets in, including me," Atwood notes."Luckily, we are in accord most of the time. When I said 'You can't kill that person', he said, 'Well, I wasn't going to'. And when I said 'hands off that baby,' he said. 'Oh. Okay'.
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