Alias Grace
By: Margaret Atwood
Edition: 1st electronic ed.
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9780795328350
Subjects: Romans; Murder; Trials (Murder); Women murderers; Fiction
Description: A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?