Description
A collection of twelve short stories that showcases Tobias Wolff's extraordinary talent, available in a deluxe paperback edition--part of Ecco's The Art of the Story Series.
In The Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff's first collection of short fiction, hailed the arrival of a major talent and the beginning of an acclaimed, bestselling career. In each of these sharply crafted stories, his characters, drawn from everyday life, stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path." Among the characters in these twelve stories 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 endures the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director.
Author: Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 06/23/2015
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780062393845
ISBN10: 0062393847
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General