Alias Grace
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As the story begins, one-time maid-of-all-work Grace Marks is serving a life sentence in the Kingston Penitentiary for her involvement in the vicious murder of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent: after all, she was barely sixteen in 1843, at the time of the tragedy. Others think her evil or insane. Grace herself, having spent an interlude in the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto, claims now to have no memory of the murders. (Založil/a: strixa)
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Nakladatelství (rok): Little Brown
- 1997
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Alias Grace is an amazing story which ruminates on various issues such as guilt x innocence, sanity x madness, both physical and mental imprisonment, women's position in the society of the 19th century, where there were only limited roles they can play... and comes back again to the ubiquitous virgin/whore dichotomy which seems to be extremely deep-rooted and persistent in many cultures.
Margaret Atwood does a great job here putting together various pieces of material she had discovered in archives and interlaces them with vivid details, at the same way as Grace makes her patchwork quilts of tiny cuttings of cloths.