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Captive - Collector 2025
624 pages
Published November 6, 2025
About the author
Margaret Atwood
569 books92.6k followersMargaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
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July 11, 2026
J’ai mis beaucoup de temps à lire ce livre et pourtant j’ai vraiment aimé.
On suit Grace qui au XIXe siècle est accusée de meurtre sur ses employeurs, elle a 16 ans, jeune naïve ou manipulatrice… je laisse le lecteur se faire une idée.
Sa vie n’a été que malheur, les cinquante dernières pages sont néanmoins surprenantes.
Basée sur une histoire vraie, Grace Marks a bien existé.
Ce livre retrace aussi les premiers pas de la psychiatrie et de l’hypnose.
On suit Grace qui au XIXe siècle est accusée de meurtre sur ses employeurs, elle a 16 ans, jeune naïve ou manipulatrice… je laisse le lecteur se faire une idée.
Sa vie n’a été que malheur, les cinquante dernières pages sont néanmoins surprenantes.
Basée sur une histoire vraie, Grace Marks a bien existé.
Ce livre retrace aussi les premiers pas de la psychiatrie et de l’hypnose.
June 26, 2026
J’aime toujours autant l’écriture de Margaret et la façon dont elle arrive à rendre intemporel des histoires qui pourtant le sont. Cette réécriture d’une histoire réelle est vraiment bien écrite, quoi qu’un peu longue. Je trouve juste dommage de ne pas avoir de réel dénouement à la fin, mais ce ne serait pas un roman de Margaret Atwood si la fin n’était pas floue 😉 j’ai vraiment apprécié découvrir Grâce.
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