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Margaret Atwood will release new novel 'The Heart Goes Last' this fall

Atwood's recent work includes 'MaddAdam' and the short story collection 'The Stone Mattress.'

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Margaret Atwood shows 'Alias Grace' at the stand of the German Berlin Publishing House at the 48th Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany in 1996.
  • By Molly Driscoll Staff Writer

Author Margaret Atwood will reportedly be releasing a new book this fall.

Atwood鈥檚 鈥淭he Heart Goes Last鈥� will be published by Penguin Random House this September. According to , this will be the first book by the author that is not part of a series since 2000鈥檚 鈥淭he Blind Assassin,鈥� which took the Man Booker Prize.

The book will center on couple Charmaine and Stan, who become part of an experiment in which they are given a house and employment. The flip side of this agreement is that every second month, they must stay in a jail while a different couple lives in their home.聽

According to , the book is 鈥渨ickedly funny and deeply disturbing.鈥澛�

Some of Atwood鈥檚 recent works include her recent trilogy, which included the books "The Year of the Flood" and "MaddAdam," the latter of which was released in 2013.

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