Tobias Wolff

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...

First published in 1989, this scarifying memoir has become a classic of the genre, as notable for its artful structure and finely wrought prose as for the events it describes. The book essentially launched the memoir craze that has been going strong ever since. It was made into a movie in 1993...

Tobias Wolff's first two books proved how the short story can "provoke our amazed appreciation" ( New York Times Book Review). Now he returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in...

The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy’s Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel. Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to...

A classic tale of brotherly love and rivalry from short story master Tobias Wolff....

Tobias Wolff's masterful short story about one woman's quiet revenge on the pomposity and arrogance of academia. Meticulous, funny, eccentric - Mary has always been mindful of the complex role she plays as a professor of history. Her lectures are carefully written out beforehand; her...

In this short story from Our Story Begins, three friends confront their relationships to one another as they work on plans to build their very own airplane....

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...

Ann's friends envy her. None of their husbands even lift a finger to help with the household chores....

Miller is unlucky. That's why he's in a foxhole with the rest of Bravo Company. That's why his dad is gone and his mother remarried....

Gilbert saw Mary Ann first, but the second time he sees her she is dancing with his best friend, Rafe....