Sunday, July 1, 2007

Report on the book

The book i have been reading is called "Alias Grace".This book have been written by one of the most famous canadian writter Mrs Margaret Atwood.This book is a novel (having received the Giller prize in 1996 according to the reference at the end of the book) and is indeed a really nice peace of work.
The Story as the name indicate it turn around the main caracter Grace Marks who is a irish young girl who immigrated to canada with her family in order to begin a new and better life as they could not live decently in their country of origin irland.But eventhough she was in another country Grace life did not improve that much as she would endure a serie of unforseen and unfortunate events from the death of her mother to the murder of her employer (Thomas Kinnear) and his housekeeper (Nancy Montgomery) which she was accused of,passing by the death of her best and only true friend (Mary Whitney).Alias grace is really an excellent experience that will make you sad at time but also laugh,and the story is filled with suspence and keep you guessing till the end.According to maclean's ''Alias grace is brilliantly realized,intellectually provocative and maddeningly suspenful.''
Altough i really enjoyed reading this book as the story i felt was really an interresting one i could not help to noticed that the author gave a lot of precision may be even to much.Every single personage is generally profondly describe from head to toe,and i feel this was just adding some informaton that are useless because sometime they are hard to understand.I also remarked that at the beginning of every new chapter there is some kind of poem, sometime poem other time letter and so on and i did not really understand the purpose of those as they did not always treat with what was going to be talk about in the folloing chapter.The way the story is told can also bring to confusion as the author juggles between the past and the present in a alternative way.So it is sometime had to situate yourself.
Finally e can say that eventhough ''Alias Grace'' can be a really complex and hard to understand book it is extraordinary interesting, and I would recommade it to anyone even those who do not really enjoy reading as I.

1 comment:

liliconcordia said...

Hi there,

I can't seem to read your Book report...the title is there but the contents are not. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is there something you did wrong?

Your publications are really interesting...continue.