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Back in the Worldby Tobias WolffISBN 0553343254 (0-553-34325-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back in the World'Book summary: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
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The Barracks Thiefby Tobias WolffISBN 0224024337 (0-224-02433-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Barracks Thief and Other Selected Storiesby Tobias WolffISBN 0553342134 (0-553-34213-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Best New American Voices 2000by Tobias Wolff , Natalie Danford, John KulkaISBN 0156013223 (0-15-601322-3)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Best American Short Stories 1994by Tobias Wolff , Katrina KenisonISBN 0395681022 (0-395-68102-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Hunters in the Snowby Tobias WolffISBN 0224019864 (0-224-01986-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost Warby Tobias WolffISBN 0330340190 (0-330-34019-0)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War'Book summary:In This Boy's Life Tobias Wolf created an unforgettable memoir of an American childhood. Now he gives us a precisely and sometimes pitilessly remembered account of his young manhood - a young manhood that become entangled in the tragic adventure that was Vietnam. Mordantly funny, searingly honest, In Pharoah's Army is a war memoir in the tradition of George Orwell and Michael Herr. [via]
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The Night in Question: Storiesby Tobias WolffISBN 0517396297 (0-517-39629-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Old Schoolby Tobias WolffISBN 0375701494 (0-375-70149-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old School'Book summary:Tobias Wolff's Old School is at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. Set in a New England prep school in the early 1960s, the novel imagines a final, pastoral moment before the explosion of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the suicide of Ernest Hemingway.
The unnamed narrator is one of several boys whose life revolves around the school's English teachers, those polymaths who seemed to know "exactly what was most worth knowing." For the boys, literature is the center of life, and their obsession culminates in a series of literary competitions during their final year. The prize in each is a private audience with a visiting writer who serves as judge for the entries.
At first, the narrator is entirely taken with the battle. As he fails in his effort to catch Robert Frost's attention and then is unable--due to illness--to even compete for his moment with Ayn Rand, he devotes his energies to a masterpiece for his hero, Hemingway. But, confronting the blank page, the narrator discovers his cowardice, his duplicity. He has withheld himself, he realizes, even from his roommate. He has used his fiction to create a patrician gentility, a mask for his middle class home and his Jewish ancestry. Through the competition for Hemingway, fittingly, all of his illusions about literature dissolve.
Old School is a small, neatly made book, spare and clear in its prose. Each chapter is self-contained and free of anything extraneous to the essentials of plot, mood, and character. Near the end of the novel, the narrator, now a respected writer, imagines that he might one day write about his school days. But he is daunted. "Memory," he says, "is a dream to begin with, and what I had was a dream of memory, not to be put to the test." Old School enters this interplay between dreams and the adult interrogation of memory. Risking sentimentality, Wolff confronts a golden age that never was. From the confrontation, he distills a powerful novel of failed expectations and, ultimately, redemptive self-awareness. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
The Picador Book of Contemporary American Storiesby Tobias WolffISBN 033033526X (0-330-33526-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Stories of Tobias Wolffby Tobias WolffISBN 0330302108 (0-330-30210-8)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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This Boy's Lifeby Tobias WolffISBN 0060972777 (0-06-097277-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ugly Rumours: A Novelby Tobias WolffISBN 0048231177 (0-04-823117-7)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Writers Harvest 3 : A Collection of New Fictionby Tobias WolffISBN 0385333773 (0-385-33377-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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