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Author Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Title Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood
Edition First edition
Published New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996
New York, NY : Anchor Books, 1997
©1996

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 W'PONDS  817.05 A8875 A6/A  AVAILABLE
Description 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Jagged edge -- 2. Rocky road -- 3. Puss in the corner -- 4. Young man's fancy -- 5. Broken dishes -- 6. Secret drawer -- 7. Snake fence -- 8. Fox and geese -- 9. Hearts and gizzards -- 10. Lady of the lake -- 11. Falling timbers -- 12. Solomon's temple -- 13. Pandora's box -- 14. The letter x -- 15. The tree of paradise
Summary 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, from her family's difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada, to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnear's household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember, he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, and of the alarming behavior of Grace's fellow servant, James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace, but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?
Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind 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, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders
Notes "Anchor Books."
Giller Prize, 1996
Subject Marks, Grace, 1827- -- Fiction.
Marks, Grace, 1827- -- Romans
Murder -- Fiction.
Murder -- Canada -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Canada -- Fiction.
Women murderers -- Fiction.
Women murderers -- Canada -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Canada -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100375
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 96021689
ISBN 0385475713 (alk. paper)