num_pages: 472
description: /ATWOOD MARGARET/ The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale takes readers back 150 years and inside the life and mind of one of the most notorious women of the 1840s--Grace Marks, serving a life sentence for the vicious murders of a wealthy landowner and his mistress. Into this rich work of the imagination, Atwood brings her brilliant insights into the relationships between men and women and between the society of the entitled and those without position.
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: 139377
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: Nan A  Talese