Wilderness Tips
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781844086610 (1844086615)
Publish date: January 1st 2010
Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Feminism,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
I'm going to have to take a break from Margaret Atwood. I love her novels, but her short stories have left little impression on me. (And let's not even mention my recent run in with The Heart Goes Last...). There are only two stories in Wilderness Tips that I can remember and that were of some int...
This is going to be a biased review because Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite authors. I hadn't read any of her short stories until this collection and I really enjoyed her writing in this medium. A few of my favourite stories are "True Trash," "The Bog Man," "Uncles," "The Age of Lead," and, o...
Poignant! I have been waiting a long time to use this word in a review. I really liked this collection and it comes as no surprise considering I am Atwood’s fangirl and have been for a long time.I feel everyone will find something else to speak to them in these stories. Some people might like the de...
If I ever manage to whittle my favorite short story collections down to my top five favorite stories, Death By Landscape will be among them.
If I ever manage to whittle my favorite short story collections down to my top five favorite stories, Death By Landscape will be among them.
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