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Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood.
LIBRA - Special PR9199.3.A8 A79 1996p
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marks, Grace, 1827---Fiction.
- Marks, Grace.
- Marks, Grace, 1827-.
- Murder--Canada--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Women murderers--Canada--Fiction.
- Women murderers.
- Trials (Murder)--Canada--Fiction.
- Trials (Murder).
- History.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996.
- Summary:
- 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. 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?
- Notes:
- "Advance reading copy."
- "This is an uncorrected proof"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. inscription: "For The Barnett - remember the other five! with thanks and best wishes - Margaret Atwood".
- ISBN:
- 0385475713
- 9780385475716
- OCLC:
- 36420171
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