In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly 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.By 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 in Wilderness Tips take 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 Atwood is 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. She lives in Toronto.

玛格丽特·阿特伍德，1939年出生于加拿大渥太华，早年在安大略北部和魁北克度过，1962年获哈佛大学文科硕士学位，曾任加拿大作家协会主席。她是加拿大最著名的小说家和诗人，其作品迄今已在全球35个国家出版。她曾推出30多部作品，其中包括小说、诗歌与批评散文。她的小说《女仆的故事》、《猫眼》与《别名格雷斯》曾获得加拿大的吉勒尔奖与意大利的普雷米欧·蒙德罗奖，《瞎眼刺客》曾获2000年英国布克小说奖。