Wilderness Tips

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A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.

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She is one of the greatest writers of the past century * Sunday Times *
Atwood's voice . . . is sharper than ever, but still funny . . . It whispers that the wilderness is right here, right now * San Francisco Chronicle *
[A] sense of time's fluidity and motion informs this dazzling collection. . . . [Atwood] uses her powerful gifts of language and observation to delineate both the misunderstandings between men and women and the everyday sadnesses and comforts of love * New York Times *

Author Bio

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays, and won the Man Booker for THE BLIND ASSASSIN. Her latest novel, THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD will be published in Virago paperback in August 2010.