Alias Grace
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Alias Grace
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- Label
- Alias Grace
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Atwood
- Subject
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- trueBiographical fiction
- Canada -- Fiction
- trueCanada -- History -- 19th century
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical mysteries
- trueHousehold employees
- trueHousekeepers
- trueIrish Canadians
- trueLiterary fiction
- Marks, Grace, 1826- -- Fiction
- trueMarks, Grace, b. 1826
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Murder -- Fiction
- trueMurder -- History -- 19th century
- truePsychological fiction
- trueTrials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Fiction
- trueWomen murderers
- Women murderers -- Fiction
- trueWomen prisoners
- true1840s -- 1840 -- 1849
- Biographical fiction
- trueBooks to TV
- Language
- ENG
- Summary
- 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?
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 1998.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 1996.
- Giller Prize, 1996.
- Library Journal Best Books, 1996.
- New York Times Notable Book, 1997
- Awards note
- Booker Prize finalist, 1996
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
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- PR9199.3.A8
- PS8551 .T97 A45 1996b
- LC item number
- A79 1996
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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