Margaret Atwood - Alias GraceRelease Date: November 01, 1997 |
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Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace - In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of cir Product rating: 
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| Authors | Margaret Atwood |
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| Awards | 1998 International Impac Dublin Literary Award |
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| Professional Reviews | Salon: "A proto-psychologist seeks out the imprisoned Grace hoping to excavate her secrets and establish, once and for all, her guilt or innocence, but Atwood herself is just as interested in the texture of daily life in the 19th century; this is a book about blood and laundry. Her tremendous intelligence--never contaminated by an iota of sentimentality or cant--and poet's eye...make ALIAS GRACE an acerbic delight..." |
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| Book Editions | PaperbackAugust 30, 1999McClelland & Stewart Ltd9780771008573 |
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