num_pages: 545
description: Man Booker Prize Nominee (1996)"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.
language: English
title: Alias Grace
titlecomplete: Alias Grace
characters: Grace Marks
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Canada, Crime, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 139394
places: Ontario, Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Virago