Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Washington State. He attended Oxford University and Stanford University, where he now teaches English and creative writing. He has received the Story Prize, both the Rea Award and PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
From the Back Cover
The debut title in Ecco's the art of the Story Series—a collection of twelve short works of fiction that showcase Tobias Wolff's extraordinary craft
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff's first collection of short fiction, hailed the arrival of a major talent and the beginning of an acclaimed, bestselling career. In each of these sharply crafted stories, his characters, drawn from everyday life, stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."
Among the characters in these twelve stories are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life; a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience; a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride; and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endures the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director.
發表於2024-12-22
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My favorite of this collection is Worldly Goods. It is short, but reading it took me long. I have to stop from time to time to catch my breath and ease my worries; and sometimes, I just wanted to skip or stop completely. I just knew something obnoxious is a...
評分 評分腰封上說,沃爾夫跟卡佛還有個誰是美國短篇小說的名傢,都是“骯髒現實主義”的代言人。看這個描述心說啊呀當代近代還有能與卡佛齊名的?讀讀看,就買瞭。 結果大失所望。 風格上來說,確實沃爾夫和卡佛都是講普通人生活裏的無奈的。隻不過有以下幾個巨大的差彆: 1、目標人...
評分先說說幾句關於作者的話。托拜厄斯·沃爾夫和雷濛德·卡佛齊名,被歸類到所謂骯髒現實主義作傢(dirty realists)的流派中。骯髒現實主義這個術語,是由《格蘭塔》(Granta)雜誌編輯比爾·巴福德(Bill Buford)創造的,用來指代那些用簡樸語言描述普通人生活骯髒、齷蹉麵的現...
圖書標籤: 美國 Fiction 小說 原版書 美國文學 文學 短篇 講故事
最近讀過的最帶感的短篇集,每篇都那麼好,描寫得那麼精準。請等待我的譯本,預2014年齣版。
評分這人的寫作風格很疏懶,其實倒是《紐約客》專職作傢。一個精明之處是小說裏通常隻流露一個人的所思所想,而其餘人都在此人的鏡頭下被反復端詳。一旦(在某幾篇裏)作者跳齣這種模式,錶明他對這個人物都沒有什麼同情瞭。
評分有幾篇很喜歡
評分介於三星半與四星之間吧。很有一種風格的短篇,比較“收”,句點之後總還有點什麼的那種。
評分最近讀過的最帶感的短篇集,每篇都那麼好,描寫得那麼精準。請等待我的譯本,預2014年齣版。
In the Garden of North American Martyrs 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載