num_pages: 298
description: here are brilliantly rendered stories that explore themes of loss and discovery, of the gap between youthful dreams and mature reality, of how we connect with others and with the sometimes hidden parts of ourselves.
  Wilderness Tips
In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age. By superimposing th past on the present Atwood paints interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and life's lost chances, endowing even the banal with a sense of mystery. Richly layered and disturbing, poignant at times and scathingly witty at others, the stories in Wilderness Tips take us into the strange and secret places of the heart and inform the familiar world in which we live with truths that cut to the bone.Description from the back cover
language: English
title: Wilderness Tips
titlecomplete: Wilderness Tips
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Adult, Fiction, Short Stories, Adult Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Contemporary
ratings_count: 9017
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Trillium Book Award
publisher: Bantam