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Alias Grace

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By the author of The Handmaid's TaleNow a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess.

Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks.

Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin' Hilary Mantel'The outstanding novelist of our age' Sunday Times'A sensuous, perplexing book, at once sinister and dignified, grubby and gorgeous, panoramic yet specific...I don't think I have ever been so thrilled' Julie Myerson, Independent on Sunday

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Product Details
Virago Press Ltd
0349010714 / 9780349010717
Paperback / softback
813.54
14/09/2017
United Kingdom
English
General
545 pages
20 cm
General (US: Trade) Learn More
Quiz No: 233296, Points 28.00, Book Level 6.90,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. TV tie-in. Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1996.