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It is 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances?… (mer)
girlunderglass: Both books share the impressive power of beautifully and believably conveying a particular place and time - they make the reader not only understand and love the peculiarities of a particular era, but also temporarily feel part of it.
BookshelfMonstrosity: Based on sensational true crimes of yesteryear, these character-driven historical novels focus on young women whose attempts to escape lives of poverty and abuse lead to violence. Both disturbing, suspenseful books present nuanced psychological portraits of their protagonists.… (mer)
souloftherose: It's difficult to explain this recommendation without revealing spoilers for either novel. Both are set in the 19th century, feature strong female narrators and concern a crime - and that's all I can say!
BookshelfMonstrosity: The Polished Hoe portrays conditions in 20th-century Jamaica, while Burial Rites focuses on 19th-century Iceland, but these exquisitely detailed literary historical novels explore the lives of unusually intelligent women whose treatment by their masters has resulted in terrible crimes.… (mer)
rbtanger: Both are historicals about female murderers. And both are equally haunting and mysterious with a good pull at the beginning and a good twist to the end.
1Owlette: Although set at different times and in different countries, both works explore similar themes of isolation, marginalization, and the effect of social pressures upon women's mental states, in haunting, beautiful prose.
Atwood tillhör de absolut största författarna av idag. Hon skildrar tidsandan på ett föredömligt sätt. Karaktärerna känns så levande och språket bara flyter fram i en härligt långsam stil som fångar tidsanda och stämning perfekt. Klassamhället och kvinnors ställning känns också så verkligt. Rekommenderas. ( )
Utspelar sig i Canada på 1850-talet. Grace Marks är ung, vacker och livstidsdömd för mord. Hon minns ingenting av själva morden och sitter nu i fängelse efter en vistelse på sinnessjukhus. En intresserad läkare försöker, genom att låta Grace berätta om sitt dramatiska liv (från barndommen på Irland, båtresan över till Canada, hennes korta tid som hembiträde och fram till flykten från mordplatsen) ta reda på om hon är sinnessjuk eller bara lider av minnesförlust. Lite lång roman. Det tar ett tag att komma in i den precis som flera andra av MAs böcker. Men den är fantastiskt vackert välskriven och till slut kunde jag inte lägga den ifrån mig. Mkt intressant om dåtidens syn på människans psyke. Grundhistorien kommer från verkligheten vilket MA, som vanligt, berättar om i efterordet. Vilken otrolig research som måste vara gjord för att nysta fram grundmaterialet! Mkt läsvärd. ( )
Margaret Atwood has always written her characters from the inside out. She knows them: in their hearts, their bones. For many years now she has been a stylist of sensuous power. In Alias Grace she has surpassed herself, writing with a glittering, singing intensity.
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Whatever may have happened through these years, God knows I speak truth, saying that you lie. —William Morris, "The Defence of Guenevere"
I have no Tribunal. —Emily Dickinson, Letters
I cannot tell you what the light is, but I can tell you what it is not...What is the motive of the light? What is the light? -Eugene Marais The Soul of the White Ant.
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta.Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk.
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
It's 1851. I'll be twenty-four years old next birthday. I've been shut up in here since the age of sixteen. I am a model prisoner, and give no trouble.
Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.
Help is what they offer but gratitude is what they want
It is 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances?
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April Group Read - "Alias Grace" (SPOILERS)
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