Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996, Hardcover)

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385475713
ISBN-139780385475716
eBay Product ID (ePID)781901

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Book TitleAlias Grace
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicGeneral, Literary, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorMargaret Atwood
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight28.5 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-021689
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn her bestselling novel The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood masterfully took us to a chilling world of the future. In her astonishing new novel Alias Grace, she just as convincingly takes us back 150 years and inside the life and mind of one of the most notorious women of the 1840s. Grace Marks is serving a life sentence for her part in the vicious murders of Thomas Kinnear, a wealthy landowner, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Grace herself now claims to have no memory of the murders.Simon Jordan, a young New England doctor in the field of mental health and an expert on amnesia, has been engaged to find out the truth. To do so, he must awaken that part of Grace's mind that lies dormant, using the practices of the science he has such great faith in. As Grace reveals details about Kinnear's and Nancy's unconventional domestic arrangements, Simon brings her closer and closer to the day she has so determinedly repressed.Into this rich work of the imagination--of sex, violence, immigration, spiritualism, and the brutal existence of the underprivileged--Margaret Atwood has brought her brilliant insights into the relationships between men and women and those between the society of the entitled and those without positions. Superbly evoking a century past and alive with mesmerizing storytelling, Alias Grace is vintage Atwood.
LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.A8A79 1996

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