The Stories of Tobias Wolff (Paperback)

~ Tobias Wolff (Author)

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Product Description

This collection brings together stories from "Hunters In the Snow" and "Back In the World", and features the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning short story, "The Barrack Thief". Tobias Wolff is the author of "In Pharoah's Army" and "This Boy's Life".

About the Author

The author of three collections of stories, Tobias Wolff lives with his family near Stanford University, where he is the director of the creative writing program.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (April 23, 1997)
• ISBN-10: 0747531536
• ISBN-13: 978-0747531531
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,749,113 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Last Hope, April 9, 2007

By	S. Withers (NYC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Tobias Wolff is the only writer to whom I've written a fan letter--late at night, when I couldn't stop reading and was so touched by yet another sharp and lovely image that I couldn't help myself. He is an innovator. He often ends stories with a paragraph or so in the mind of a peripheral character, but what in anyone else's story would seem sloppy in Wolff serves to open up a slice of reality into a whole universe. People have compared him to Carver, but I have often found Carver's short stories dry, lugubrious or pretentious. Wolff accomplishes what Great Novelists such as Balzac, Dostoevsky and Henry James did, but in small, crystalline stories. He taught me that it doesn't have to have a landau, a troika or a carriage to be immortal literature. If fame were based on merit, he would be one of few English-language writers of the 20th century to last.