Alias Grace

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Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that reimagines the life and notorious 19th-century murder trial of Canadian domestic servant Grace Marks.

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instanceOf historical fiction novel
novel
adaptationDistributor Netflix, Inc.
surface form: Netflix
adaptationFormat television miniseries
adaptationNetwork CBC Television
adaptationReleaseYear 2017
adaptedAs Alias Grace self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alias Grace (television miniseries)
author Margaret Atwood
awarded Giller Prize
basedOn Grace Marks
basedOnEvent 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery
containsElement epistolary sections
multiple perspectives
unreliable narrator
countryOfOrigin Canada
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre crime fiction
historical fiction
psychological fiction
hasCharacter Dr. Simon Jordan
James McDermott
Nancy Montgomery
Thomas Kinnear
hasISBN 978-0-7710-0813-0
libraryOfCongressClassification PR9199.3.A8 A79 1996
literaryMovement contemporary Canadian literature
mainCharacter Grace Marks
narrativeForm first-person narrative
frame narrative
notableFor feminist re-reading of historical crime
reinterpretation of a real 19th-century murder case
originalLanguage English
pageCount about 470
publicationYear 1996
publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
McClelland and Stewart
surface form: McClelland & Stewart
setInCountry Canada
setInPeriod 19th century
setInYear 1843
settingCity Toronto
settingRegion Upper Canada
shortlistedFor Booker Prize
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
theme class and social inequality
gender and power
identity
memory
truth and unreliability

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Alias Grace adaptedAs Alias Grace self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Alias Grace (television miniseries)
Margaret Atwood notableWork Alias Grace