Our Story Begins
by Admin free novel ebooks, Category Fiction, Literary
publisher: Knopf
year: 2008, Mobi 0.39 Mb
A long-recognized master of the short story genre, Wolff brings together 21 favorite stories culled from three previous collections and adds, for this occasion, 10 new stories never before gathered in book form. This retrospective of his three-decades-long career testifies to the short story being his natural agent for personal expression.
The opening story, “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” a widely acknowledged masterpiece, satirizes academe, specifically the pretensions inherent in professorial posturing, at the same time sensitively understanding a college professor who gets her quiet revenge against merciless colleagues.
Wolff’s understanding of the tender aspects of character surfaces in another masterpiece, “Soldier’s Joy,” which is set on a military base, and, in parallel with the previously discussed story, pecking order rules the day and everyone’s life. In any story, in all of them, Wolff dexterously probes, in immaculately clear prose, the core of ordinary people’s passions and vulnerabilities
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