One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...
The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...
Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...
Wilderness Tips is a book of short stories by Margaret Atwood. It was first published in 1991 by McClelland and Stewart (ISBN 0-7710-0819-8). Several of the stories are fictionalized portrayals of Atwood's contemporaries in Canadian literature. The...
Sara Donati. Bantam, $22.95 (7O4p) ISBN 0-553-10736-4 Epic in ambition, heaving-bosomed and lavish with pioneer life, Donati's debut inevitably invites comparison to the Revolutionary War-era romances of Diana Gabaldon. Claire Fraser, Gabaldon's time-traveling physician heroine, even makes a cameo appearance as a battlefield...
Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder Kevin Lally Henry Holt, 1996 496 pp.; $30.00, cloth; $14.95 Kevin Lally's new biography of Billy Wilder is packed with fascinating tidbits from the director's full life: Wilder went everywhere, knew everyone, and had an anecdote...
In the following review of Wilderness Tips, Rubin praises Atwood's ability to function as a "barometer" of the social climate of present and past decades in her writing, but faults her work for "a lack of energy and élan."
