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The Night In Question: Stories - Tobias Wolff
The Night In Question: Stories
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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... show more
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780679781554 (0679781552)
ASIN: 679781552
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
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willemite
willemite rated it
Man bites dog. Of course the pooch had it coming. In noted memoirist and short story master Tobias Wolff’s third collection of stories, that particular nibble leads to a sequence of events that would have made O Henry nod in appreciation. And this should come as no surprise. Wolff has won three O He...
JulieM
JulieM rated it
4.0 The Night in Question: Stories
I'm not a fan of short stories in general, but I really enjoyed this book. His writing style is easy to read and so vivid. I thought many of the stories had to be autobiographical - that is until I realized that some of them were about women. I definitely will read more by Tobias Wolff.
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