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Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood.

By: Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese, ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 468 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385475713
  • 9780385475716
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 20
LOC classification:
  • PR9199.3.A8 A79 1996
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • I711.45
  • 18.07
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.
Awards:
  • Booker Prize finalist, 1996
Summary: A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PR 9199.3 .A8 A79 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 197443
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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.

A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?

Booker Prize finalist, 1996

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