Back in the World: Stories

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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

Additional information

Weight0.24 kg
Dimensions1.25 × 13.21 × 20.17 cm
Format
language1
Pages

224

Publisher

Year Published

1996-10-1

Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

0679767967

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.

Table Of Content

Cominig AttractionsThe Missing PersonSay YesThe Poor Are Always with UsSisterSoldier's JoyDesert Breakdown, 1968Our Story BeginsLeviathanThe Rich Brother

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