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Alias Grace
by Atwood, Margaret
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- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve), black boards, copper spine titling bright; tex
- ISBN 10
- 0747527873
- ISBN 13
- 9780747527879
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London: Bloomsbury, 1996. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve), black boards, copper spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked but lightly sunned.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? 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. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin' Hilary Mantel
Synopsis
Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The story is about the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Upper Canada. Two servants of the Kinnear household, Grace Marks and James McDermott, were convicted of the crime. McDermott was hung and Marks was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131921
- Title
- Alias Grace
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/binding
- Hardback
- Book condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve), black boards, copper spine titling bright; tex
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0747527873
- ISBN 13
- 9780747527879
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 460
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, historical fiction, Atwood
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.88 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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