Back in the World: Stories

Back in the World: Stories

by Tobias Wolff
Back in the World: Stories

Back in the World: Stories

by Tobias Wolff

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307787286
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/16/2011
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 645,773
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Hometown:

Northern California

Date of Birth:

June 19, 1945

Place of Birth:

Birmingham, Alabama

Education:

B.A., Oxford University, 1972; M.A., Stanford University, 1975

Table of Contents

Cominig Attractions
The Missing Person
Say Yes
The Poor Are Always with Us
Sister
Soldier's Joy
Desert Breakdown, 1968
Our Story Begins
Leviathan
The Rich Brother

What People are Saying About This

Tim O'Brien

"Terrific....The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is an ancient art. A master storyteller."

Ann Beattie

"Tobias Wolff has an eerie talent...These are fine, unique stories."

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