Alias Grace (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Family or family life, Psychology or psychologists, Mental illness, Quilts or quilting, Women, Working class, Human behavior
- Locales: Kingston, Canada
For a novelist who has primarily written of the present, Margaret Atwood has long had an abiding interest in the past. Her latest novel, ALIAS GRACE, picks up an historical thread Atwood first wove into a television play in 1974, then reworked again (in a fashion) in her poems about the historical figure Susannah Moodie. The story of Grace Marks is the story of a young Irish woman who emigrates to Canada in the 1840’s, where she takes up work as a maid. At the age of sixteen, Grace is convicted as an accomplice in the murder of her employer, Thomas Kinnear and his pregnant...
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