The Night in Question: Stories.
de Wolff, Tobias
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
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- ISBN 10
- 0747528365
- ISBN 13
- 9780747528364
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Langley, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York:: Knopf,, 1996... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection of stories 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. These fifteen stories deliver small, exquisite shocks that speak to living life intensely.The stories include: 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 and Bullet in the Brain.
Sinopsis
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.
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- Librería
- Gregor Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 26067
- Título
- The Night in Question: Stories.
- Autor
- Wolff, Tobias
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0747528365
- ISBN 13
- 9780747528364
- Editorial
- Knopf,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996..
- Palabras clave
- Literature
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Langley, Washington
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