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Alias Grace Paperback – 1 September 1997

by Margaret Atwood (Author)
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'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.
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  1. Print length
    560 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Virago
  4. Publication date
    1 September 1997
  5. Dimensions
    13.1 x 3.7 x 19.7 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1860492592
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1860492594
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  1. But when you go mad you don’t go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.
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A sensuous, perplexing book, at once sinister and dignified, grubby and gorgeous, panoramic yet specific...I don't think I have ever been so thrilled...This, surely is as far as a novel can go (Julie Myerson INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

Brilliant...Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin (Hilary Mantel)

Margaret Atwood is to be congratulated (Anita Brookner SPECTATOR)

The outstanding novelist of our age (Peter Kemp SUNDAY TIMES)

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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale *** A major NETFLIX series

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Virago; 1st edition (1 September 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1860492592
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1860492594
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.1 x 3.7 x 19.7 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 10,481

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  1. José Antonio Alías García

    José Antonio Alías García

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    José Antonio Alías comenzó su andadura como compositor y más tarde se realizó como escritor bajo el mismo nombre artístico y pseudónimo, respectivamente, de Ares Van Jaag. Posteriormente ejercería como editor independiente.

    Entre sus obras literarias destacan "Manual del Jugador Profesional" - Editorial Trafford Publishing (2008), "El Motor de Agua" - Editorial Vivelibro (2013) o "Moncheta Gonzalo de la Birria Caateta" - Editorial Alvi Books (2016).

    Fue director de Editorial Planeta-Alvi hasta la modificación de su denominación social en 2018.

    En la actualidad ejerce como editor y director de la editorial londinense Alvi Books, Ltd.

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    Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. ‘Her sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019. It was an instant international bestseller and won the Booker Prize.’

    Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Kate M
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Kylie Di Mauro
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in Australia on 25 March 2020
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I loved how this book was based on a true story with the author filling in the blanks. It was a good read, but not a quick read. It was a well written, interesting book.
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Nana Mez
5.0 out of 5 stars Discovered a great book
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I have always shied away from Margaret Atwood's book as I felt they were a bit strange. Had to read Alias Grace for my book group and absolutely loved it. I am now a fan of hers and will be reading more of her books.
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Pete Foley
3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but super thin paper
Reviewed in Australia on 23 August 2023
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Kind of a weird complaint, but the paper used for this book is so thin that you can see the opposite page's print through the paper. It's a bit distracting!
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Angela McRae
4.0 out of 5 stars Portrait of early Canada
Reviewed in Australia on 30 March 2019
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Margaret has crafted a picture of the crossing of an Irish family to Nth America, and the life that awaited a penniless young girl.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Alias Grace Review
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This book is a wonderful read right from the first page you just could not put it down great read thank you Margaret Atwood
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Bryan Dwyer
4.0 out of 5 stars Intensely Private Life of a Serving Girl
Reviewed in Australia on 5 November 2017
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Margaret Atwood's account of an infamous double murder captures the voice of Grace the servant of one of the victims and of the doctor investigating her apparent amnesia.
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Keegan
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and thoughtful
Reviewed in Australia on 24 November 2017
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Another example that every story has many players involved with many different angles and motives. An interesting tale with much to analyse.
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Beth Love
5.0 out of 5 stars Could not put it down!
Reviewed in the United States on 1 February 2024
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This novel was hard to read because of the hardships faced by the main character, but it was absolutely captivating and had a surprise ending.
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April Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesante
Reviewed in Spain on 27 June 2023
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Calidad muy bien.
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Gigi
5.0 out of 5 stars Tough to start but worth it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2022
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As with many books, you need to adapt to style of writing, persevere and then you wonder why you worried. With MA (&similar writers), trust that you will get over that "hump" .....they are brilliant authors for a reason.
So......thought provoking, fascinatingly sad actually......was she schizophrenic? Was she duplicitous? What would you have done? Was wearing a dead person's dress proof of murder or instead a sign of life at the time?
Many people will interpret in different ways....but that's the brilliance of an author.
As for Netflix version, I'll be interested....Will it be my interpretation/ view OR a different one of equal resonance?
Whatever, a great read, just like THMT, and thank goodness we have the opportunity to read, in between the not-so-different slavery of motherhood......which is unpaid.
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Gerlinda Smaus
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr empfehlenswert!
Reviewed in Germany on 15 February 2022
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Roman von einer Nobel Preisträgerin verfasst!
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grelobe
5.0 out of 5 stars where the truth is?
Reviewed in Italy on 18 February 2021
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"Just because something is written, sir, doesn't mean it's the sacrosanct truth." I like to begin my reflection on this book by Margaret Atwood with this sentence. I know and appreciate the writer's narrative and stylistic skills having read many of her books. This also captured me because, through Grace's story, Atwood, in my opinion, wants to show that there is never a single truth but that there are as many points of view as there are the points of view, the prejudices of those who seek or take it for granted .
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