The Nation, December 9th, 1996
By Margaret Atwood. Doubleday. 470 pp. $24.95.
Alias Grace is the novel Margaret Atwood has been preparing to write since she crossed the border and studied Victorian literature at Harvard in the sixties. Composed of archival documents, invented lives and verse, Alias Grace also synthesizes Atwood's three careers as cultural historian, fiction writer and poet. About a notorious nineteenth-century murderess, the story is criminally seductive. And since the murderess, Grace Marks, tells much of the tale, she becomes the most telling displacement yet of Atwood the subversive artist and ideolog...
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