Wilderness Tips

“Each of the stories in Wilderness Tips is a gem, a glittering piece to which one is drawn again and again.”
–The Denver Post

“A solace in the midst of life’s losses and confusions–reason enough to celebrate once again Margaret Atwood’s singular gifts.”
–Maclean’s

“Wilderness Tips is vintage stuff: the author is at her satiric, terse, biting and disturbing best in these ten stories.”
–Edmonton Journal

“This is masterful writing.”
–Globe and Mail

“Atwood is as audacious as ever....There is something irresistible about this combination of mordant humour and unswerving truth.”
–Winnipeg Free Press

“[Atwood possesses] a truly remarkable array of powers....The wilderness of Wilderness Tips is the one we all live in–whether or not we admit it.”
–Books in Canada

“These are stories that speak to all who do not close their ears, and their minds, to the late twentieth-century reality.”
–StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)

“Virtuoso wit and unmistakable style....Atwood the poet is alive in these stories.”
–Chicago Tribune.

“The reader has the sense that Atwood has complete access to her people’s emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts and imagination.”
–Publishers Weekly

“[Atwood has the] ability to place her finger firmly on the pulse of what is contemporary.”
–Hamilton Spectator

“Wilderness Tips is a grimly comic, often scathing natural history of urban anxiety and middle age.”
–London Free Press

“Almost every one of the ten stories in this collection superimposes the past upon the present in an unsettling, often startling manner, which conjures up a sense of the mysterious, in even the most banal relationships.”
–New York Times Book Review
From the Hardcover edition.

Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

She is the author of more than thirty books – novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children.

Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye – both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is Oryx and Crake (2003). She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.

Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
From the Hardcover edition.