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Alias Grace
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- as new
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996. Hardcover. as new. First Edition. 470pp. Octavo in original tan cloth with blind stamped decoration and gilt lettering on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Fine dust jacket, not price clipped. Clean tight text block. An as new copy. Signed by the author in blue ink on title page. Alias Grace tells the story of former maid Grace Marks, accused of the brutal murder of her wealthy employer, and now spending time in the Kingston penitentiary, claiming to not remember the event of the murders. Now, a doctor of mental illness, will try to extract the story from her. 1996
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
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130047
- Title
- Alias Grace
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Canadian Fiction|Novel|Canadian Literature|Atwood, Margaret|Canadian Lit.
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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