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My first Atwood. I was very excited to dive into this seeing as how her books have been on my list for ages.
Alias Grace is a fictionalized account of a true story. In 1843, Grace Marks, a Canadian housemaid, was convicted of murdering her employer and his mistress. She and her supposed accomplice, James McDermott were both found guilty and set to hang, but Grace's sentence was later reduced to being committed to an asylum. Grace then spent the next thirty years in a variety of asylums and prison ...more
Alias Grace is a fictionalized account of a true story. In 1843, Grace Marks, a Canadian housemaid, was convicted of murdering her employer and his mistress. She and her supposed accomplice, James McDermott were both found guilty and set to hang, but Grace's sentence was later reduced to being committed to an asylum. Grace then spent the next thirty years in a variety of asylums and prison ...more
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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Nov 11, 2008
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I bought Alias Grace about two years ago (for a dollar at a library sale...Those rock!) and have been putting it off ever since. I've heard from a few people that while Margaret Atwood is an amazing writer, her books weren't really page-turners. And, somewhat unfortunately, I almost always go towards page-turners in my pleasure reading. But I decided to read it because it has been on my bookshelf for much longer than it should've been. Well, I'm glad to say that my assumption of this book as a n
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Mar 06, 2010
Heather
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Martha
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