title: Alias Grace
author/editor: Margaret Atwood
reviewed by: Georgene
ALIAS GRACE
I just finished a new book - it's a novel called Alias Grace. The writing is exquisite:
Here is a sample:
It's 185l. 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. That's what the Governor's wife says, I have overheard her saying it. I'm skilled at overhearing. If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
Here's another example:
She was an imposing figure of a woman, and a very different shape out of her corsets than in them; but when she was firmly laced in, her bosom jutted out like a shelf, and she could have carried a whole tea service around on it and never spilt a drop.
The author is Margaret Atwood who also wrote The Handmaid's Tale. If you like books that draw you in with descriptive writing, this one is great because the storyline is strong enough to keep you riveted to the book until you find out if this tragic woman regains her memory--and thus discovers if she is really a murderess.
I enjoyed it.
Georgene adds," I couldn't put this one down. I was so curious to know the answer."