num_pages: 227
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 part of ourselves.In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age. By superimposing the 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.
language: English
title: Wilderness Tips
titlecomplete: Wilderness Tips
genres: Classics, Adult, Adult Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 9017
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Trillium Book Award
publisher: Nan A. Talese