The Barracks Thief And Selected Stories

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062376886

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The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff Pdf

The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 055334675X

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The Barracks Thief and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff Pdf

The provocative, award-winning short story collection from one of America's most exciting young fiction writers is about three paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Six other highly acclaimed stories are also included.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1081871748

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The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff Pdf

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400095971

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Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff Pdf

This collection of stories—twenty-one classics followed by ten potent new stories—displays Tobias Wolff's exquisite gifts over a quarter century.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802198600

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This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff Pdf

The PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author recounts coming of age in 1950s Washington State with his mother and abusive stepfather in this classic memoir. This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully re-creates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence. His various schemes—running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars—lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility. Praise for This Boy’s Life “Wolff writes in language that is lyrical without embellishment, defines his characters with exact strokes and perfectly pitched voices, [and] creates suspense around ordinary events, locating the deep mystery within them.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “[This] extraordinary memoir is so beautifully written that we not only root for the kid Wolff remembers, but we also are moved by the universality of his experience.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A work of genuine literary art . . . as grim and eerie as Great Expectations, as surreal and cruel as The Painted Bird, as comic and transcendent as Huckleberry Finn.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “Wolff’s genius is in his fine storytelling. This Boy’s Life reads and entertains as easily as a novel. Wolff’s writing and timing are superb, as are his depictions of those of us who endured the 50s.” —The Oregonian

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400095254

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Old School by Tobias Wolff Pdf

The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307763747

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The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff Pdf

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.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061868221

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In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff Pdf

Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0747574650

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Old School by Tobias Wolff Pdf

It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy in his final year, on a scholarship, has learned to fit in with his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself and his background. Class is ever present, but the only acknowledged snobbery is a literary snobbery. These boys' heroes are writers - Fitzgerald, Cummings, Kerouac. They want to be writers themselves, and the school has a tradition whereby once a term big names from the literary world are invited to visit. A contest takes place with the boys admitting a piece of writing and the winner having a private audience with the visitor. When it is announced that Hemingway will be the next to come to the school, competition among the boys is intense, and the morals the school and the boys hold dear - honour, loyalty and friendship - are tested. No one writes more astutely than Wolff about the process by which character is formed, and here he illuminates the irresistible strength, even the violence, of the self-creative urge. This is a novel that, in its power and its beauty, in its precision and its humanity, is at once contemporary and timeless.

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199653713

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Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief by Clive Emsley Pdf

The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307763754

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In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff Pdf

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.

Author : Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231504959

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story by Blanche H. Gelfant Pdf

Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199744398

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

Presents a collection of fifty-nine familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, Flannery O'Connor, Edmund White, and Richard Wright.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787286

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Back in the World by Tobias Wolff Pdf

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

Author : Kim Harrison
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062300157

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The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison Pdf

Supernatural superhero Rachel Morgan must counter a strange magic that could spell civil war for the Hollows in this sexy and bewitching urban fantasy adventure in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison's Hollows series. Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now, strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering. Rachel must stop this dark necromancy before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and all-out supernatural war breaks out. Rachel knows of only weapon to ensure the peace: ancient elven wild magic, which carries its own perils. And no one know better than Rachel that no good deed goes unpunished . . .