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This Boy's Life
Av Tobias Wolff
Häftad, 1999
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
172 kr
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The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America.
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs Deluxe Edition
Stories
Av Tobias Wolff
Häftad, 2015
318 kr
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Federal Offense
from In Pharaoh''s Army
Av Tobias Wolff
E-bok, 2017
16 kr
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“We weren’t meant to be here.” From the modern classic memoir, In Pharaoh’s Army , a selection by Tobias Wolff portrays the final days of civilian life before boarding the bus that would carry him to the blind carnage of the Tet offensive and the greater War. With his uncanny eye for detail, …
Awaiting Orders
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
33 kr
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Sergeant Morse is a risk-taker, playing chicken with the potential exposure of his sexuality. Julianne is looking for her brother, Specialist Hart, not knowing he''s shipped out to Iraq. In a surprising moment of tenderness, Sergeant Morse offers to help her, but whether due to fear of exposure or …
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Stories
Av Tobias Wolff
E-bok, 2009
90 kr
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A collection from the Story Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award winner and author of This Boy''s Life, "a writer of the highest order" (Los Angeles Times).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 …
Best New American Voices 2000
Av John Kulka, Tobias Wolff m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
314 kr
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Culled from over one hundred prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, Best New American Voices 2000 offers a remarkable panoply of writing talent that showcases the literary stars of tomorrow.Included here are twenty of the finest stories to come out of such programs as …
Our Story Begins
Av Tobias Wolff
E-bok, 2008
205 kr
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This collection of stories—twenty-one classics followed by ten potent new stories—displays Tobias Wolff''s exquisite gifts over a quarter century. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Night In Question
Stories
Av Tobias Wolff
E-bok, 2010
205 kr
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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 …
In Pharaoh's Army
Memories of the Lost War
Av Tobias Wolff
E-bok, 2010
156 kr
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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. From the Trade …
Back in the World
Stories
Av Tobias Wolff
E-bok, 2011
104 kr
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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 …
Old School
Av Tobias Wolff
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
266 kr
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Av Patricia Highsmith, Amy Hempel m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2005
246 kr
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A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day , David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O''Connor to Tobias Wolff. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them …
Stories of Tobias Wolff
Av Tobias Wolff
Häftad, 1997
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
234 kr
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This volume brings together all the stories from Tobias Wolff's collections "Hunters in the Snow" (1982) and "Back in the World" (1985) with his intense short novel "The Barrack's Thief" - winner of the 1984 PEN/Faulkner Award. These are works which impart powerful realisations of the discrepancy …
Night in Question
Av Tobias Wolff
Häftad, 1997
208 kr
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Written by the author of "The Barracks Thief", "This Boy's Life" and "Hunters in the Snow", this collection of stories looks at how people rewrite their own histories, and examines how revenge, as another urge to put things right, can take curious forms.
Old School
Av Tobias Wolff
Häftad, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the literary world visits and a contest takes place. The boys have to submit a piece of writing and the winner receives a …
Our Story Begins
New and Selected Stories
Av Tobias Wolff
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
191 kr
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Our Story Begins combines twenty-one of Tobias Wolff's classic stories with ten potent new works, spanning three decades and confirming Wolff's status as a master of the genre. These stories of war, morality, frustration, loneliness and love trace a path through the everyday and the extraordinary, …
Old School
Av Tobias Wolff
E-bok, 2004
142 kr
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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 …
Night in Question
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
32 kr
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A story of siblings and faith from short-story master Tobias Wolff Frances has always been protective of her younger brother Frank. The children of a brutal father and a sick, defenseless mother, Frances fought to keep her brother safe. And throughout all of his adult failings—from drug addiction …
Firelight
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
32 kr
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A mother and her son dream of a life beyond their means in this classic short story by Tobias Wolff. "Firelight" tells the story of a mother and her son who are spending the afternoon viewing apartments on a chilly day in Seattle, Washington. The two have no intention of renting one—they can only …
Bullet in the Brain
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
33 kr
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The story of a book critic and his final thoughts from short-story master Tobias Wolff Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a …
That Room
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
17 kr
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In this short story by the masterful Tobias Wolff, a teenage boy learns the joys—and struggles—of adult life. Eager for independence and adult-like freedom, a teenage boy takes a summer job baling hay on a rural farm. Savoring the farm wife''s attention and the extra change in his pocket, the boy …
White Bible
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
32 kr
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Maureen is an English teacher, and she''s had a long day. All she wants is a relaxing night out with friends, a few beers, and maybe the chance to forget the troubles of her past: the gambling ex-husband and the daughter who''d thrown her life away sleeping with married men. But her night—and maybe …
Her Dog
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
17 kr
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John didn''t want a dog. He wasn''t ready, he said. Grace, on the other hand, did want a dog, and when she brought Victor home from the pound, John made sure Grace knew it was her dog, her responsibility. But when Grace dies, John is left with just Victor and his grief, and he learns a new level of …
Mature Student
Av Tobias Wolff
Ljudbok, 2013
32 kr
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Theresa left the Marines after twenty-two years to start a new life. Her husband had moved on to a second wife, and her son had recently enlisted. Now Theresa is going to school, getting a degree in hotel management. But it is her art history class she finds most interesting, and a chance encounter …
