kskopitz's Full Review: Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood's Alias, Grace is a haunting, and sometimes frightening look at accused murderer Grace Marks. Convicted at the age of 16, the attractive Grace is sentenced to life imprisonment, while her alleged accomplice is hanged. The novel is told through Grace's conversations with Dr. Simon Jordan, an American psychiatrist that grows obsessed with the Canadian case. As Grace denies any memory of the murder, Jordan struggles to jog her memory, in the hope of clearing her name. Grace never fully complies, her version of the story consistently contradictory. The reader, along with Dr. Jordan, wants to believe what she says, and it may be the truth. Or not.
A masterpiece of plotting, Atwood engages the reader from the first page to the last. Along the way, she merrily exposes the hypocrisy of the age--manners and morals that contribute, if not to the crime itself, at least to the interpretation of it.
A fine read, but not one to be done late at night, unless the reader is immune to nightmares.
In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's T...More at Barnes & Noble.com
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