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"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word."
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long,
from Robert Heinlein's 'Time Enough for Love'
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 Format: Paperback, 460 pages
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
ISBN: 0385490445
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
| |  | | | In Brief
This novel is based on a historical figure, Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old Irish immigrant to Canada, convicted of complicity in the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear in 1843. "We learn Grace's story, or, at least, Grace's carefully modulated version of it, during the course of her sessions with a. . . 'doctor of the mind' named Simon Jordan. Grace claims to have no memoryof the murder of Kinnear, or of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and lover, and denies having had sexual relations with James McDermott, who was hanged for his part in the crime. When Jordon arrives, determined to help her regain her memory and, hopefully, clear her name, she has already served 15 years of alife sentence, some in an asylum." (Booklist)
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Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself 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, from her family's difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada, to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnear's household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember, he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, and of the alarming behavior of Grace's fellow servant, James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace, but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
The Handmaid's Tale explored the boundaries of the female psyche in a novel about the future. Here, her latest novel, set 150 years in the past, again brings Atwood's brilliant insights to bear on the relationships between men and women in a tale of sex, violence, immigration, spiritualism, and the brutal experience of the underprivileged.
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
. . .if Grace manages to keep several people in her life simultaneously at bay and attracted to her, the reader, too, is part of her fascinated audience. For her narrative powers are what draw one through the intricate maze of Ms. Atwood's story and lead to the heart of its complex vision of human motive and self-awareness. -- The New York Times —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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