Alias Grace book cover by Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace

Adult • Historical • Genre Fiction
Enigmatic woman of the 1840s Crime and intrigue unfold in Canada Explores themes of sexuality and cruelty Told through multiple perspectives Based on a true story

Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.

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Publication date
2010
ISBN
1551994860

Historical + Genre Fiction

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Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim?

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About the author

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
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“Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin - Hilary Mantel”

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