Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood.
| Author/creator | Atwood, Margaret, 1939- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Nan A. Talese, ©1996. |
| Description | 468 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | 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 hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter? |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Biographical fiction. |
| LCCN | 96021689 |
| ISBN | 0385475713 (alk. paper) |