Wilderness Tips | Characters
The individuals populating the ten short stories of Wilderness Tips for the most part belong to a reasonably well educated bourgeois world in which they are modestly successful professionals— these are not working class heroes by any means, and the only truly marginal social misfits appear as nameless transients on Toronto's indifferent streets. Many have a foothold among what might be called the cultural elite—college professors (Connor of "The Bog Man," Richard of "Isis in Darkness"); art collectors (Lois of "Death by Landscape"); media stars (the editorial journalist Marcia of...
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