num_pages: 468
description: In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances?
language: English
title: Alias Grace
titlecomplete: Alias Grace
characters: Grace Marks
genres: Canada, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Classics, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 139381
places: Kingston, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 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: Anchor Books