Wilderness Tips - Softcover

Atwood, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747510199 ISBN 13: 9780747510192

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1991

Synopsis

Modern Fiction

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Review:

"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 "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" " 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 urbananxiety 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" "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 themost banal relationships."-"New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

* ' Margaret Atwood deserves an adjective - Atwoodian - in recognition of her vituoso wit ad unmistakable style' CHICAGO TRIBUNE

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0747510199
• ISBN 13: 9780747510192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258