Wilderness Tips
1991 collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood
0-7710-0819-8 Wilderness Tips is a collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood, published in 1991 by McClelland and Stewart. It was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. Certain stories were previously published in The New Yorker, Saturday Night, Playboy, Harper's and Vogue.[1]
Several of the stories are fictionalized portrayals of Atwood's contemporaries in Canadian literature. The mysterious poet Selena in "Isis in Darkness" is based on Gwendolyn MacEwen, and the journalist Marcia in "Hack Wednesday" is based on June Callwood.[2] One story, "Uncles", prompted a feud between Atwood and Robert Fulford, who claimed to have been the model for the character Percy Marrow, described in the story as a "peeled potato with a little tuft of fuzz on top".[2]
Contents
- "True Trash"
- "Hairball"
- "Isis in Darkness"
- "The Bog Man"
- "Death by Landscape"
- "Uncles"
- "The Age of Lead"
- "Weight"
- "Wilderness Tips"
- "Hack Wednesday"
Notes
- ^ Garvie, Maureen (Sep 21, 1991), "Lost in the Woods", The Whig-Standard, p. 1
- ^ a b Brian Busby, Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit. ISBN 0307368580.
External links
- NYT Review (1991)
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Works by Margaret Atwood
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- Surfacing (1972)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- Life Before Man (1979)
- Bodily Harm (1981)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Cat's Eye (1988)
- The Robber Bride (1993)
- Alias Grace (1996)
- The Blind Assassin (2000)
- Oryx and Crake (2003)
- The Penelopiad (2005)
- The Year of the Flood (2009)
- MaddAddam (2013)
- The Heart Goes Last (2015)
- Hag-Seed (2016)
- The Testaments (2019)
collections
- Dancing Girls (1977)
- Murder in the Dark (1983)
- Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
- Wilderness Tips (1991)
- Good Bones (1992)
- Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
- The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
- The Tent (2006)
- Moral Disorder (2006)
- Stone Mattress (2014)
- Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
- "Rape Fantasies" (1977)
- "The Resplendent Quetzal" (1977)
- "Happy Endings" (1983)
- "Unearthing Suite" (1983)
- "Freeforall" (1986)
collections
- Double Persephone (1961)
- The Circle Game (1964)
- Expeditions (1965)
- Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
- The Animals in That Country (1968)
- The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
- Procedures for Underground (1970)
- Power Politics (1971)
- You Are Happy (1974)
- Two-Headed Poems (1978)
- True Stories (1981)
- Interlunar (1984)
- Morning in the Burned House (1995)
- The Door (2007)
- Dearly (2020)
- Survival (1972)
- Negotiating with the Dead (2002)
- Writing with Intent (2005)
- Payback (2008)
- Burning Questions (2022)
- Heaven on Earth (1987)
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