Alias Grace
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0747527873
- ISBN 13
- 9780747527879
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First British Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf to unclipped DJ with tiny ding to spine, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Fourth impression of first UK edition. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork Head of a girl in a green dress by Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 480 pages; Fictionalised account regarding an actual case from the 19th century. Young housemaid Grace Marks was charged and convicted of the murder of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Mongomery. Years later, Dr Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the new field of psychology listens as she tells the story of her life. .
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
- Books in Bulgaria
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28688
- Title
- Alias Grace
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First British Edition; Fourth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0747527873
- ISBN 13
- 9780747527879
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Murders And Mysteries;
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