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by: Tobias Wolff
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679781554
ISBN: 0679781552
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 30, 1997
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: September 30, 1997
Sales Rank: 63841
Studio: Vintage
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Product Description:
In this fine book of stories, the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of This Boy's Life arrives at truths--about love, death, sex, and solitude--that are as invigorating as they are unsettling. 'A wonderful collection . . . These stories seize your imagination.'--The New York Times.
Amazon.com Review:
Tobias Wolff has earned the deep respect of his many readers for direct, compelling stories marked by honesty and insight. The Night in Question is a collection of fifteen short works tied together by Wolff's upright style and unyielding interest in those moments when moral confusion crystallizes into clear, shining action and understanding. His characters, situations, and themes become familiar over time: children recognize the failings of their parents, men and women attempt to bridge the distance between themselves, and singular events shape everyday feelings into a new and more meaningful reality.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Some of the best short stories you'll ever read
After Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff is usually tagged as the minor partner in the pioneers of "dirty realism", a fairly meaningless term which was used to denote a new orthodoxy of somber and minimalist fiction about blue-collar American life. Having read all three, I think Wolff is actually the better writer. His stories are richer and more complex than Carver's in terms of their characters and themes, and they're more accessible than Ford's. Those collected here are fine examples. ... Read More
Rating: - great collection of amazing works
Wolff is an amazing writer. He says more in these short stories than other writers say in entire books. I heard Bullet in the Brain on This American Life and I had to buy the book. I am so glad that I did. Kids will be studying these someday in school.
Rating:  - One of the Best Short Story Writers Ever.
I liked this collection but, don't kill me, I thought In The Garden of the North American Martyrs was better. Maybe it's my imagination or something about the timing of my reading each, but with The Night in Question I thought that at times Wolff was packing too much into his sentences, too much insight. It was all trenchant observation and inspiration, but those pockets of narrative threw the rest of the story off kilter for me and detracted from what I liked so much about In the Garden: that the ... Read More
Rating: - Wolff Has Yet To Disappoint
Tobias Wolff has written yet another fantastic collection of short stories with The Night in Question. Wolff has yet to disappointment me with any of his writings thus far, and since I believe I've read all of his works but for one or two, it does not seem as though that may be a possibility. The Night in Question is a collection dealing with all too human aspects in a series of stories that are unlikely, but certainly not beyond the realm of possibility. The peculiarity is not the focus in Wolff's ... Read More
Rating: - Masterful, Moving, Magical
Before I picked up this book I was only vaguely aware of Tobias Wolff, never having, as far as I can recall, read anything of his. I did remember that he had written a memoir of his peripatetic childhood that was praised probably fifteen years ago. I was unprepared for the power and grace of this collection of short stories published in 1996. A little research on the Internet tells me that Wolff is primarily a short story writer -- he has certainly found his niche in that, although I gather he has recently ... Read More
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