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    Alias Grace

    Written by Margaret Atwood

    Narrated by Diana Quick

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    Sixteen years after being locked up, at the age of sixteen, for the bloody murders of her employer and his housekeeper, Grace Marks is examined by Dr Simon Jordan, an expert in amnesia.

    As the days and weeks pass Simon tries to prise open the memories Grace claims to have lost and reveals a life of love and betrayal, poverty and abuse, drawing the listener in to the rooms of Grace’s mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 15, 2005
    ISBN9780007219643
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    Alias Grace
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    Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of over fifty books, including fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning television series, her works include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-Seed; The Testaments, which won the Booker Prize and was long-listed for the Giller Prize; and the poetry collection Dearly. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in Great Britain for her services to literature. She lives in Toronto.

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    • 4/5
      Good read! It could have been longer and gone into more detail
    • 4/5
      I did a short research about the historical facts that inspired this novel. It has a gothic feel, transposing you back into the world of the 19th century, the age of maids and sevants, the age when medicine and psychiatry were still testing methods and hypothesis, when justice was made within limited means.
      The art of Margaret Atwood comes in sharing the inner world of Grace. I found her candide, naive, smart and with a lot of potential that could not manifest itself due to the external conditions she was living in. I found myself thinking: who would she have became in a more favorable world? If she was not exposed to death, abuse, lack of power, subordination and so on...
      The story’s resolution touches upon the possible subject of multiple personalities ( i am still not sure of the DSM ever validated this diagnosis, my guess is that it never did, but I need to check), but it can also be seen as a way of trying to cope with the trauma of losing Mary, the victim to a potentially similar situation as the one in the house where the murders took place. Whatever the intention, the story is memorable from the point of view of the internal monologue of Grace. Grace, alias Mary or Mary, alias Grace.
    • 2/5
      Absolutely no depth to the story and characters. I felt like she was simply droning on without purpose