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.

瑪格麗特·阿特伍德，1939年齣生於加拿大渥太華，早年在安大略北部和魁北剋度過，1962年獲哈佛大學文科碩士學位，曾任加拿大作傢協會主席。她是加拿大最著名的小說傢和詩人，其作品迄今已在全球35個國傢齣版。她曾推齣30多部作品，其中包括小說、詩歌與批評散文。她的小說《女僕的故事》、《貓眼》與《彆名格雷斯》曾獲得加拿大的吉勒爾奬與意大利的普雷米歐·濛德羅奬，《瞎眼刺客》曾獲2000年英國布剋小說奬。