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Alias Grace
de Atwood, Margaret
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- as new
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Librería
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
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
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 130047
- Título
- Alias Grace
- Autor
- Atwood, Margaret
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo as new
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Editorial
- McClelland and Stewart
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Palabras clave
- Canadian Fiction|Novel|Canadian Literature|Atwood, Margaret|Canadian Lit.
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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