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Quilt and Guilt |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Roberta Rubenstein |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,781 Words, 17,450 Characters |
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ALIAS GRACE
Margaret Atwood
New York: Doubleday, 1996
470 pp., $32.50
Justifiably regarded as one of Canada's most distinguished writers, Margaret Atwood is equally accomplished as the author of fiction and poetry. In addition to a dozen volumes of poetry--several of which have been honored with prestigious literary awards--she has published nine novels and four volumes of short stories and prose pieces. Additionally, her critical study of major themes and ideas in Canadian literature, Survival (1972), though now dated, delineates the early years of a Canadian literary tradition that Atwood herself helped to establish.
As the daughter of an entomologist who conducted his research in the rural northern areas of Quebec and Ontario, Atwood did not attend formal schools...
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...ecord rather than invented herself. As Alias Grace compels us to consider, truth may not be simply stranger than fiction but utterly inseparable from it. Such is Atwood's brilliant accomplishment that, in this spellbinding and skillfully crafted narrative, the concealed seams/"seems" that join the materials of history and invention, the fabrics of quilt and guilt, can scarcely be discerned. vbcrlf
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