Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood.

Author/creator Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Nan A. Talese, ©1996.
Description468 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/formHistorical fiction.
Genre/formBiographical fiction.
LCCN 96021689
ISBN0385475713 (alk. paper)