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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff, are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."]]> Thu, 22 Oct 1981 18:37:06 +0300 Back in the World: Stories https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48411-back_in_the_world_stories.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48411-back_in_the_world_stories.html

To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace. Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier's Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O'Brien From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Tue, 22 Oct 1985 18:37:06 +0300 This Boy's Life https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48418-this_boys_life.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48418-this_boys_life.html

]]> Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:56:11 +0300 The Night in Question: Stories https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48410-the_night_in_question_stories.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48410-the_night_in_question_stories.html

One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the reversal seem inevitable: the dog has attacked his protagonist's young daughter. And everywhere in The Night in Question, we are reminded that truth is deceptive, volatile, and often the last thing we want to know. A young reporter writes an obituary only to be fired when its subject walks into his office, very much alive. A soldier in Vietnam goads his lieutenant into sending him on increasingly dangerous missions. An impecunious mother and son go window-shopping for a domesticity that is forever beyond their grasp. Seamless, ironic, dizzying in their emotional aptness, these fifteen stories deliver small, exquisite shocks that leave us feeling invigorated and intensely alive. From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:37:06 +0300 Old School https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48407-old_school.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48407-old_school.html

The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master. From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:37:06 +0300 In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48406-in_pharaohs_army_memories_of_the_lost_war.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48406-in_pharaohs_army_memories_of_the_lost_war.html

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic. From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Sat, 22 Oct 1994 18:37:06 +0200 Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48408-our_story_begins_new_and_selected_stories.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/48408-our_story_begins_new_and_selected_stories.html

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

“One of our most exquisite storytellers” (Esquire) gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation,” as The New York Times Book Review wrote then. In the years since, he’s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as a pair of genre-defining memoirs (This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army), the novella The Barracks Thief, and, most recently, a novel, Old School. Now he returns with fresh revelations—about biding one’s time, or experiencing first love, or burying one’s mother—that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary: a retired Marine enrolled in college while her son trains for Iraq, a lawyer taking a difficult deposition, an American in Rome indulging the Gypsy who’s picked his pocket. In these stories, as with his earlier, much-anthologized work, he once again proves himself, according to the Los Angeles Times, “a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve.”]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:37:06 +0300 The Barracks Thief https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/508517-the_barracks_thief.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/508517-the_barracks_thief.html

]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:12:05 +0200 Our Story Begins https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/251929-our_story_begins.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/251929-our_story_begins.html

]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:24:27 +0200 In Pharaoh's Army https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/246764-in_pharaohs_army.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/246764-in_pharaohs_army.html

]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:38:17 +0200 The Night In Question https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/251930-the_night_in_question.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/251930-the_night_in_question.html

One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the reversal seem inevitable: the dog has attacked his protagonist's young daughter. And everywhere in The Night in Question, we are reminded that truth is deceptive, volatile, and often the last thing we want to know.

A young reporter writes an obituary only to be fired when its subject walks into his office, very much alive. A soldier in Vietnam goads his lieutenant into sending him on increasingly dangerous missions. An impecunious mother and son go window-shopping for a domesticity that is forever beyond their grasp. Seamless, ironic, dizzying in their emotional aptness, these fifteen stories deliver small, exquisite shocks that leave us feeling invigorated and intensely alive.

From the Trade Paperback...]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:24:27 +0200 Back in the World https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/240101-back_in_the_world.html https://reference.library.land/tobias-wolff/240101-back_in_the_world.html

To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.

Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier's Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and...]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:26:53 +0200