Here are brilliantly rendered stories that explore themes of loss and discovery, of the gap between youthful dreams and mature reality, of how we connect with others and with the sometimes hidden part of ourselves.
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 through ...
Here are brilliantly rendered stories that explore themes of loss and discovery, of the gap between youthful dreams and mature reality, of how we connect with others and with the sometimes hidden part of ourselves.
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 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.
Like, for instance, English men. Charm the knickers off you with their mellow vowels and frivolous verbiage, and then, once they'd got them off, panic and run. Or else stay and whinge. The English called it whinging instead of whining. It was better, really. Like a creaking hinge. It was a traditional compliment to be whinged at by an Englishman. It was his way of saying he trusted you, he was conferring upon you the privilege of getting to know the real him. The inner, whinging him. That was how they thought of women, secretly: whinge receptacles. Kat could play it, but that didn't mean she liked it. (查看原文)
But she knows other things, hidden things. Secrets. And these other things are older, and on some level more important. More fundamental. Closer to the bone. (查看原文)
0 有用 贝加尔海 2009-02-24 18:51:45
中文版的定名是《荒野指南》。10个短篇的集子。 荒野的世界里无奈及其张力。与其说是指南不如说是已经走过的人的路线图。
0 有用 南阳刘子骥 2009-12-17 05:36:46
短篇小说的智慧。margret atwood绝对是大师
0 有用 Mcat 2012-09-15 10:53:57
Age of Lead ，Hairball，The Bog Man，Heck Wednesday ，喜歡這幾篇。
0 有用 Mcat 2012-09-15 10:53:57
Age of Lead ，Hairball，The Bog Man，Heck Wednesday ，喜歡這幾篇。
0 有用 南阳刘子骥 2009-12-17 05:36:46
短篇小说的智慧。margret atwood绝对是大师
0 有用 贝加尔海 2009-02-24 18:51:45
中文版的定名是《荒野指南》。10个短篇的集子。 荒野的世界里无奈及其张力。与其说是指南不如说是已经走过的人的路线图。