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ALIAS GRACE
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Seller
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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McLelland & Stewart. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 077100835x . A lovely copy showing very light shelf wear only, INSCRIBED by Author on title page. ; 9.5" x 6.5"; 470 pages; Signed by Author .
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
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18329
- Title
- ALIAS GRACE
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 077100835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008351
- Publisher
- McLelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 077100835x
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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