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Wilderness Tips

By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
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Summary

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 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.
©1989 O.W. Toad Ltd. (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Contemporary Fiction Heartfelt Witty
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Critic reviews

"Margaret Atwood deserves an adjective – Atwoodian – in recognition of her vituoso wit and unmistakable style." ( Chicago Tribune)
"Each of the stories in Wilderness Tips is a gem, a glittering piece to which one is drawn again and again." ( The Denver Post)
"This is masterful writing." ( Globe and Mail)

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Only for the die hard Atwood fans

I’ve read pretty much all of Atwood’s work and I’d place this book firmly in the bottom 5.
It’s not outright bad, just not very engaging.
What the stories seem to have in common are various attempts at describing the passing of time, so if you’ve got a particular interest in that I suppose it’s worth a listen.

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