In each of these tales,Margaret Atwooddeftly 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."Margaret Atwood deserves an adjective - Atwoodian - in recognition of her virtuoso wit ad unmistakable style."-Chicago TribuneBy 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 inWilderness Tipstake 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.Margaret Atwoodis the author of over twenty-five books, including fiction, poetry, and essays. Among her most recent works are the bestselling novels Alias Grace and The Robber Bride and the collections Wilderness Tips and Good Bones and Simple Murders.