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Wilderness Tips

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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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, an...more

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Published March 16th 1998 by Anchor (first published 1991)

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Sep 27, 2010 Aerin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, well-that-was-awesome

I have avoided reviewing this book for over a month, because I couldn't think of anything I could say about it that would do it justice. With only one misstep ("Isis in Darkness", the UTTERLY GODAWFUL story about a man's obsessive lifelong crush on a waifish self-destructive beatnik lady poet, blah and barf and no-thank-you-very-much), every story in here is like a wallop to the head. In... that good way. Well, you know. It takes your breath away; it stuns you out of your day-to-day existence; i...more

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May 16, 2010 Manny rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: blame-jordan-if-you-like, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts, well-i-think-its-funny, strongly-recommended, story-review

His wife has left Wilderness Tips lying on the coffee table, and he picks it up. Over the last twenty years, several women have told him to read it. He doesn't like to be pushed into things.

Now, though, his curiosity has got the better of him. The first few pages do make him a little uneasy. The scene where the boys are spying on the waitresses' beach party through their binoculars. He also feels like a voyeur. But that soon disappears. He isn't overhearing her private conversations: Margaret i...more

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Sep 24, 2008 Miquela rated it 1 of 5 stars

I checked this out of the local library and downed it very quickly, more to be done with it that from extreme enjoyment.

While I think Atwood is a terrific stylist, her works leave me cold, and her endings invariably disappoint. I didn't care a whit for anyone or anything in these stories, which I don't think even merit the appellation "story." Rather they should be called depressing vignettes of depressing people.

Although Lois in "Death by Landscape" merited a bit of pity, Atwood did not do any...more

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Jan 10, 2009 Madeline rated it 4 of 5 stars

"He is English and Jewish, both at once. To Marcia he seems more English; still, she isn't sure whether his full name is Augustus or Gustav or something else entirely. Possibly he is also gay; it's hard for her to tell with literate Englishmen. Some days they all seem gay to her, other days they all seem not gay. Flirtation is no clue, because Englishmen of this class will flirt with anything. She's noticed this before. They will flirt with dogs if nothing else is handy. What they want is a reac...more

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Jun 11, 2007 karen rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoy Atwood (I have previously read The Handmaid's Tale, Bodily Harm, Oryx And Crake, The Blind Assasin...and I think that's it) and had not read any of her short stories before. While I liked most of the short stories, I didn't find them as compelling as her novels. They were interesting to me but a little depressing, as they were mostly about lives that didn't go the way that people thought they would, lost potential, and also how time passes us by. Eek!

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Jan 16, 2009 Sus rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really like this collection. Margaret Atwood is very interesting to me, and in some ways a kind of model. I admire how she can make relationships between men and women, which are not, to me, inherently interesting, the right stuff to build a story around. She does this by judicious employment of sometimes extravagant metaphor. Which is pretty much how everybody does it, everybody writing "literary" "short fiction," but somehow I like how she does it. This is probably partly because of her weir...more I really like this collection. Margaret Atwood is very interesting to me, and in some ways a kind of model. I admire how she can make relationships between men and women, which are not, to me, inherently interesting, the right stuff to build a story around. She does this by judicious employment of sometimes extravagant metaphor. Which is pretty much how everybody does it, everybody writing "literary" "short fiction," but somehow I like how she does it. This is probably partly because of her weird mastery of tone -- atmosphere, possibly. Her stories are about the most banal of subjects but according to their atmospheres are always just about to slide over into science fiction or time travel or, most often, and which is interesting given the putative subject matter, horror.

"Death By Landscape" is probably a story I will keep reading over and over my whole life, to try to see how she does it. I will write many tributes to it and get them wrong. In this collection, I also like "Hairball"; "The Bog Man" (_what_ an entertaining and extravagant metaphor that one is! But it appeals to me, as well!); "Isis In Darkness" (largely, not entirely); and the title story, "Wilderness Tips" (although the jumps in viewpoint distract me.) Also successful and extremely cleverly structured is "True Trash," and, though I am kind of on the fence about "The Age of Lead," I think she manages to pull it out there also. (Just because the last paragraph works. This is how Atwood sets up her metaphor-reliant stories; as lots of people do, I guess; ad then that's the magic act, if you can pull it all together at the end.) Mysteriously, "Hack Wednesday" does not work, and I wonder if that's just because something somehow fell short at the end. If it was supposed to be there, but wasn't, then I can't see it; because that's how this magic act works: only the writer _can_ see it -- she needs to string it out, to pull it out so that it's visible to the rest of us.

Anyway. I like how her writing works with hidden things. Half-hidden, behind trees, in islands, in small entirely visible structures. Visible and invisible. That's something I want to work with in my writing. It's a way to interact with mystery, with magic.(less)

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Apr 17, 2013 Rita marked it as to-read

Shelves: canadian-fiction, short-stories

good review by KINGA:

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 something else to speak to them in these stories. Some people might like the descriptions of the changes in Toronto over decades. Some might find this mood of melancholy particularly moving.

To me it was the summer camps which play an important in two of the stor...more good review by KINGA:

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 something else to speak to them in these stories. Some people might like the descriptions of the changes in Toronto over decades. Some might find this mood of melancholy particularly moving.

To me it was the summer camps which play an important in two of the stories: True Trash and Death by Landscape. As a child who spent all her summers at various camps by forests and lakes this was something I could somehow relate to. In True Trash all the boys from the camp are fascinated by the waitresses who serve them food, they spy on them when they’re sunbathing and fantasise about the sort of things teenage boys are prone to fantasising about. It reminded me of one camp I went to many years ago. It was a camp ran by army people and our ‘waiters’ were 19 year old boys in uniforms who were doing their military service (obligatory in Poland back then). Essentially the camp was full of 14 year old city girls and 19 year old tanned farm boys with crew cuts and uniforms. I will leave you with that picture.

The most powerful story in the collection is undoubtedly the rather grisly ‘Hairball’, best emphasising the loss of trust which seems to be the theme of the collection. Although I did enjoy the whole book I felt that in some of the other stories Atwood was pulling her punches.
I also liked her observations on class in the UK:

“She had an advantage over the English women, though: she was of no class. She had no class. She was in a class of her own. She could roll around among the English men, all different kinds of them, secure in the knowledge that she was not being measured against the class yardsticks and accent-detectors they carried around in their back pockets, was not subject to the petty snobberies and resentments that lent such richness to their inner lives.”

Sometimes I feel like that too.

KINGA(less)

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Feb 17, 2013 Jakey Gee rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013

She can do no wrong.

A really enjoyable, sun-bleached, nostalgic collection, this. Most of the stories (‘Hairball’ is a bit of a Roald Dahl-y exception) feel quite wistful and retrospective, looking back on childhood, early relationships, formative moments and near-misses. I often found them sweetly sobering: the things we don’t know, the people we trusted, the way things might have been…

A few really stood out for me: ‘Death by Landscape’ (about the girls’ fated canoe trip) was a gorgeous pictu...more

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Jan 31, 2012 Lori L (She Treads Softly) rated it 5 of 5 stars

It is hard to comment on such a perfectly executed collection of short stories as those found in Margaret Atwood's Wilderness Tips. The ten short stories in this collection include: True Trash, Hairball, Isis in Darkness, The Bog Man, Death by Landscape, Uncles, The Age of Lead, Weight, Wilderness Tips, and Hack Wednesday.
I can honestly say that I found them all equally brilliant.

The collection of stories covers the unpredictability of life: disappearances, betrayals, affairs, revenge, reflectio...more

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Aug 17, 2011 Tania Brzovic rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Atwood fans; short story fans

I am not a fan of the short story genre; in fact, the only reason I picked up this book is because I am such an enormous fan of Margaret Atwood's. The mere fact that this collection held my attention well enough for me to complete it is in itself a major feat. In reality, were half stars an option I'd probably give it 3.5.

As usual, Atwood focuses on all aspects of female experience: love, relationships, sex, power. She's a gifted wordsmith who has an uncanny ability to get to the heart of matte...more

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Apr 07, 2010 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

I will always remember this book as one of my first Atwood samplings (this review is based on a re-read). My brother read to me the following passage from "Death by Landscape," and, as a former Girl Guide and Boy Scout with our fair share of youth camping experience, we both cracked up, and heralded Atwood as a comedic genius:

"Cheerfulness was required at all times, even at breakfast. Loud shouting and the banging of spoons on the tables were allowed, and even encouraged, at ritual intervals......more

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Mar 18, 2010 Bitsy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, contemporary

In Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood writes ten short stories that are at once poignant and deeply disturbing. Each story illustrates one moment in a person’s life that changes them forever. They grow from young and idealistic to old and bitter in the space of a few pages and all of the stories ended up being dark in one way or another. They all carried themes of loss, missed opportunities, mistakes, dead ends and sad realizations.

They all took place in Canada, with some containing native Canadia...more In Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood writes ten short stories that are at once poignant and deeply disturbing. Each story illustrates one moment in a person’s life that changes them forever. They grow from young and idealistic to old and bitter in the space of a few pages and all of the stories ended up being dark in one way or another. They all carried themes of loss, missed opportunities, mistakes, dead ends and sad realizations.

They all took place in Canada, with some containing native Canadians and some transplanted from England or Europe. They almost all featured promiscuity and sexual affairs, often as the norm, and they all had one hard earned life lesson to impart. The tales spanned the decades from “the war years” of World War II up until the late eighties and early nineties and all of the changes that took place in that time. The women’s movement took special prominence in these stories as they described the changes they in particular experience over that span of sixty years of human history, especially the changing face of womanhood and feminism.

Of the stories that struck me the most there was "True Trash", illuminating the difference between the "dot dot dot" of romance in the war years and the sexually explicit romance of modern day. "Hairball" was also a disturbing look at the changing face of womanhood and what women have had to give up in order to get ahead. "Death by Landscape" was one of the more horrifying stories about a camping trip gone horribly wrong and the insight, or perhaps just blind stabbing hope, it left one of the campers with. "The Age of Lead" was especially poignant because it wasn't until long after this book was published that the bpa-lining in plastic containers was discovered to be bad and that was just more of the same of the over arching theme in this story, making this one incredibly relevant to modern day.

While the themes may have been dark all of these stories had an inner kernel of truth that both you and the characters cannot escape. Time goes by fast, change happens, choices have to be made but it is ultimately you that has to live with the consequences.

Favorite Quote:
It's the forties look," she says to George, hand on her hip, doing a pirouette. "Rosie the Riveter. From the war. Remember her?"
George, whose name is not really George, does not remember. He spent the forties rooting through garbage bag heaps and begging, and doing other things unsuitable for a child. He has a dim memory of some film star posed on a calendar tattering on a latrine wall. Maybe this is the one Prue means. He remembers for an instant his intense resentment of the bright, ignorant smile, the well-fed body. A couple of buddies had helped him take her apart with the rusty blade from a kitchen knife they'd found somewhere in the rubble. He does not consider telling any of this to Prue.
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Sep 18, 2012 Barbara rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories

The writing, of course, was excellent - good imagery, engaging, at times humorous - but the stories are relentlessly depressing. Each one is about a middle-aged woman going through a sort (and all pretty much the same sort) of crisis. She's arrived at this point in her life armed with both a firm set of beliefs and a hardened ego, contemptuous of men and marriage; if she's single, she's having an affair with a married man, and if she's married, she's thinking about straying outside the home hers...more

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Apr 25, 2011 John rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: bookcase-of-fame-top-shelf

There are a number of themes that flow through these stories. The outdoors, as the name implies. World War 2. A sense of something remembered, the stories tend to span time often back to childhood. The odd shapes that love takes in life, ones that don’t fit properly into what society wants it to be. These interweave in and out of the stories forming a collective of ideas that are greater. Atwood also comes back to the idea of what it means to be Canadian.

The stories themselves are spectacular....more

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Jul 20, 2011 Sunflower rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-read-2011

I have never liked short stories. They're too...um..short. How can you curl up with a hot drink and a book of these like you can with a novel? Just as you figure out who everyone is and what's going on, suddenly paf! It isn't going on any more, you finished the story, and there was some kind of unexpected twist that you're still getting over. Which means that it's a kind of betrayal to start the next story, so there you are sitting there like some kind of doofus. Without something to read.
So yo...more

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Jan 31, 2009 Clare added it

I always compare Margaret Atwood with Alice Munro, because they are both Canadiennes and seem the same age, though I think Munro is older (not gonna confirm this with the Internet); and I prefer Munro to Atwood, because her stories are more technically accomplished and subtle, but perhaps this is unfair: their stories set out to do different things. "Wilderness Tips" was published around 1991 (also not gonna confirm that) and so several of the stories seem dated with their dissection and discuss...more

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Oct 18, 2012 PW Cooper rated it 4 of 5 stars

I’m starting to suspect that very little of Atwood’s fiction, sci-fi or not, can be called conventional. These stories range in degrees of the bizarre, from the wildly weird Hairball to more down-to-earth stuff like Hack Wednesday. For the most part, I found each one of them to be magnificently constructed and hugely rewarding.

The title, though taken from one of the weaker stories in the collection, applies well enough to the whole body. There is a sense, even in stories with an exclusively urba...more I’m starting to suspect that very little of Atwood’s fiction, sci-fi or not, can be called conventional. These stories range in degrees of the bizarre, from the wildly weird Hairball to more down-to-earth stuff like Hack Wednesday. For the most part, I found each one of them to be magnificently constructed and hugely rewarding.

The title, though taken from one of the weaker stories in the collection, applies well enough to the whole body. There is a sense, even in stories with an exclusively urban setting, that the wild is never far off, always encroaching, always threatening to swallow up the lives of these time-harried characters. Several of the stories, True Trash, Death by Landscape, Wilderness Tips, The Bog Man, The Age of Lead, draw directly on the fearsome majesty of unpeopled – untamed, you might say – land to draw into sharp focus the narrowness of their subject’s existences. Quite a few of these stories deal with the insignificance of individual lives, often ending with a short summation of the protagonist’s life as it is eclipsed by age and mortality. The natural world eating lives whole, and all the affection of story nothing more than a flicker in the wooded night. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing.

I’ve noticed that Atwood quite often makes use of a kind of gently meta-fictional linguistic self-reflexive… something. I don’t really have a word for it. I saw it a lot in Handmaid’s Tale, and again in many of these stories here. There is a character in the titular Wilderness Tips who finds a magazine of the same name and ponders, just as I did, what exactly is the meaning of the title. True Trash is also named after an in-story publication, and further ruminates on the nature of the “trashy” narrative. There is a sense that the characters are questioning language, and the ability of language to make real. They question the malleability of their own existence, when that existence can be defined only by language. One gets a sense of them as half-aware that they are characters in a story, and unsure how to interact with the framework of their being. It’s an interesting technique, one which I don’t think I’ve ever really run across in any other writer’s work.(less)

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Jun 09, 2011 zespri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories

This is a marvellous collection of short stories by Margaret Attwood. How does she do it? Each story opens with a cracker of a first line, and ends with me feeling like i have had the stuffing knocked out of me. These are stories to be read one at a time and savoured.

"When Susanna was nearly five, Susanna did a tap dance on a cheese box." What? Who wouldn't want to read on with a first line like that.

Margaret Attwood seems to have the ability to take hold of a feeling and give it words, give th...more

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Oct 02, 2012 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mine, short-stories

This is classic Atwood in easy-to-chew pieces. The stories, ranging from mildly depressing to deeply tragic, are almost beside the point. She is the loner kid who sits at the table watching everyone, learning (from a distance) to see beneath the insouciance, rebellion, the nearly unflappable cool… horribly scarred characters in her books always have some kind of redeeming value. There are no one-dimensional villains in her worlds, and the most pathetic dooms are portrayed with compassion. Yet on...more

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May 21, 2010 Rachel added it

I'm not going to rate this because I don't have a solid enough memory of it. I do have a vague sense of unease thinking about it, though. Isn't inciting a vague sense of unease one of Margaret Atwood's specialties? I guess that would merit it a few stars.

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Mar 04, 2013 Kinga rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 something else to speak to them in these stories. Some people might like the descriptions of the changes in Toronto over decades. Some might find this mood of melancholy particularly moving.

To me it was the summer camps which play an important in two of the stories: True Trash and D...more 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 something else to speak to them in these stories. Some people might like the descriptions of the changes in Toronto over decades. Some might find this mood of melancholy particularly moving.

To me it was the summer camps which play an important in two of the stories: True Trash and Death by Landscape. As a child who spent all her summers at various camps by forests and lakes this was something I could somehow relate to. In True Trash all the boys from the camp are fascinated by the waitresses who serve them food, they spy on them when they’re sunbathing and fantasise about the sort of things teenage boys are prone to fantasising about. It reminded me of one camp I went to many years ago. It was a camp ran by army people and our ‘waiters’ were 19 year old boys in uniforms who were doing their military service (obligatory in Poland back then). Essentially the camp was full of 14 year old city girls and 19 year old tanned farm boys with crew cuts and uniforms. I will leave you with that picture.

The most powerful story in the collection is undoubtedly the rather grisly ‘Hairball’, best emphasising the loss of trust which seems to be the theme of the collection. Although I did enjoy the whole book I felt that in some of the other stories Atwood was pulling her punches.
I also liked her observations on class in the UK:

“She had an advantage over the English women, though: she was of no class. She had no class. She was in a class of her own. She could roll around among the English men, all different kinds of them, secure in the knowledge that she was not being measured against the class yardsticks and accent-detectors they carried around in their back pockets, was not subject to the petty snobberies and resentments that lent such richness to their inner lives.”

Sometimes I feel like that too.
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Dec 12, 2008 Cheryl added it

My all time favorite collection of short stories EVER. I love the way one tiny detail, one glimpse of a secret, one chance meeting, alters everything.

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Sep 24, 2011 Kathy Hiester rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood is an anthology of ten short stories that are touching but yet extremely unsettling. Each story exemplifies a split second in a person’s life that changes them forever. They grow from immature and naive to mature and harsh in just a few pages and all of the stories ended up being dark with themes of loss, missed chances, blunders, and sad comprehension. While the themes are all dark all ten of the stories had the same truth that rings true in every reader’s lif...more

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Sep 01, 2010 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010

I usually find it incredibly hard to get along with short stories; with not enough meat on them to get my teeth into I usually end up feeling that they're nowhere near developed enough for my tastes or that they end just as I'm getting into them. Happily, that wasn't the case with this, a sufficiently weighty collection of stories all dealing with moments when a life is changed, and all perfectly contained within their pages neither outstaying their welcome or leaving you unfulfilled.

Contains fa...more

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Dec 17, 2012 Sam Hunter rated it 4 of 5 stars

A really nice collection of short stories. My favourite by a fairly wide margin is 'Hairball'. Some of Atwood's stories are a little dry—brilliant, but dry. Hairball is dirty, visceral, and wildly funny. 'True Trash', 'Isis in Darkness' (though it petered out a bit toward the end), and 'The Bog Man' are also excellent.
Weirdly, my four favourites are the first four stories in the collection so maybe I suffered from Atwood-fatigue midway through. Maybe I don't empathize as well with the protagoni...more

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Apr 28, 2010 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: bog men, numismatists, ghostwriters

Recommended to Kate by: Central stacks, fiction

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"He was older now, they both were. He had thinning temples and a widow's peak, and his bright inquisitive eyes had receded even further into his head. What went on between them continued to look like a courtship, but was not one. He was always bringing her things: a new, peculiar food to eat, a new grotesquerie to see, a new piece of gossip, which he would present to her with a sense of occasion, like a flower. She in her turn appreciated him. It was like a yogic exercise, appreicating Vincent;...more

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Aug 22, 2012 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars

Like all great short story collections, the tales here stay with you. I find myself still ruminating in particular on the title story ("Wilderness Tips"), "Hairball," "Uncles," and "Death by Landscape." As in much of Atwood's work, the strong female protagonists in these stories are unconventional and unpredictable. In many stories, the narration unfolds from the present backward into the past, revealing a single, life-changing event that at the time may or may not have seemed so pivotal. Embedd...more

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Jul 22, 2009 Maggie LaRochelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Atwood has some great lines, and a great way of finishing a story: True Trash was my favorite.

But it's as if it weren't a publication intended to be read in full. Each successive story begins to repeat the same themes: aging and sexual adultery, and a repeated attachment of the word "furtive" to things that are no longer by the end of the story. As though getting older only meant the limiting pain of monogamy or the deftness of a cheating affair. I don't like Atwood's choices - seems that tender...more

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Dec 30, 2010 Natanya rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: around-the-world, short-stories

These stories are Atwood through-and-through. Each story, even if it starts out seeming “normal” has a bizarre twist or quirk that pulls you in. The stories all (for the most part) do have similar themes, which made them somewhat predictable after a while, but their progressions were still unique. Many of the stories deal with extra-marital relationships or forbidden relationships, and, I have to admit, I did get a little tired of reading about people pining after others with whom they could nev...more

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Mar 23, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-and-westerns

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...more

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