The Night In Question
Stories
Published on 1. September 2010
224 pages
978-0-307-76374-7 (ISBN)
Description
Sinuous and subtly crafted stories that remind us 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.
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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Book
09/1997
Vintage Books
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10/1996
Random House US Audio
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Tobias Wolff
Night in Question: Stories
Book
10/1996
Random House USA Inc
€43.51
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Person
Tobias Wolff has written about his life in the acclaimed This Boy's Life and in In Pharoah's Army. Born in Alabama, he was raised in Salt Lake City and in the mountains above Seattle. He briefly attended prep school in Pennsylvania, then joined the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He thereafter took degrees at Oxford and Stanford. Since 1980 he has taught literature and writing at Syracuse University.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Mortals
- Casualty
- Powder
- The Life of the Body
- Flyboys
- Sanity
- The Other Miller
- Two Boys and a Girl
- Migraine
- The Chain
- Smorgasbord
- Lady's Dream
- The Night in Question
- Firelight
- Bullet in the Brain
