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Country Canada Media type Print (hardcover) Originally published 1991 Publisher McClelland & Stewart | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1991 ISBN 0-7710-0819-8 Preceded by Cat's Eye | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Speculative fiction Nominations Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Similar Margaret Atwood books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wilderness Tips is a collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood, published in 1991 by McClelland and Stewart. It was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Certain stories were previously published in The New Yorker, Saturday Night, Playboy, Harper's and Vogue.
Several of the stories are fictionalized portrayals of Atwood's contemporaries in Canadian literature. The mysterious poet Selena in "Isis in Darkness" is based on Gwendolyn MacEwen, and the journalist Marcia in "Hack Wednesday" is based on June Callwood. One story, "Uncles", prompted a feud between Atwood and Robert Fulford, who claimed to have been the model for the character Percy Marrow, described in the story as a "peeled potato with a little tuft of fuzz on top".
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