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Alias Grace
by Atwood Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ont: McClelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 077100835X . Original tan boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Minor bump on bottom spine. Near fine. DJ unclipped with minor edgewear and rubbing. "Margaret Atwood writes about a notorious Canadian murder case of the 1840s in this historical novel. She takes the facts of the Grace Marks case and uses them to delve into the psyche of the convicted murderer and the social milieu that she lived in. "; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 470 pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2065
- Title
- Alias Grace
- Author
- Atwood Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ont
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 077100835X
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Canada; Crime & Prisons;
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About the Seller
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- Good+
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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