Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood.
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 hanged for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781551994864 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1551994860 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: $1 online resource.
- Edition: First Anchor books edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Anchor Books, 1997.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Marks, Grace, 1826- > Fiction. Murder > Canada > History > 19th century > Fiction. Women murderers > Canada > Fiction. Trials (Murder) > Canada > Fiction. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |