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This book is based on the true story of Grace Marks, a remarkable woman of the 1840s.
An interesting tale, fairly literary, and benefiting from a woman's touch. "Alias Grace" is the story of Grace Marks, a notorious killer in Canada during the early 1800s, who was sentenced to life imprisonment while her male counterpart hung, and suffered from several bouts of insanity. The story was mainly told from the perspective of the psychiatrist who is interviewing her, trying to get her to recall her crimes, of which she claims to have had no knowledge. Interesting layers of the beginnin
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