Back in the World: Stories Paperback - 1996
by Tobias Wolff
From the author of This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army, which was a National Book Award Finalist, come ten pungent and wonderfully skewed stories of exhilirating grace and lucidity. "Tobias Wolff has an eerie talent. . . . These are fine, unique stories".--Ann Beattie.
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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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- Title Back in the World: Stories
- Author Tobias Wolff
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-10-01
- ISBN 9780679767961 / 0679767967
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.18 x 0.59 in (20.37 x 13.16 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95043452
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 01/01/1997, Page 155
- New York Times, 11/24/1996, Page 32
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