Wilderness Tips

Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood, 1991, Doubleday, Genre: Collected Short Fiction. 227 pages. Finished 3/16/13.

LesOpinion: Margaret Atwood is one of those authors so prolific that you get the feeling that she never stops writing. That she has to collect short fiction (and poetry), because her brain just keeps churning out tale after tale. The good news is that Atwood is a terrific writer.

Short fiction doesn't get much attention in popular circles, being reserved these days for the academic set. That's a shame. In Wilderness Tips, Atwood tells full stories about small incidences of the everyday world.

Circumstances under which I recommend this book: You want to keep some excellent nightstand or bathtub reading at hand.