Книга: Tobias Wolff «The Barracks Thief»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" The Barracks Thief ISBN:9780880010498 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (1993)
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Tobias Wolff
Infobox Writer
name = Tobias Wolff
caption = Tobias Wolff at Kepler's in
birthdate = birth date and age|1945|06|19
birthplace = Birmingham,
occupation = Writer
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Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born
He is best known for his
Teaching
Wolff is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at
Prior to his current appointment at Stanford, Wolff taught at
Education
Wolff attended
Writings
Tobias Wolff is best known for his work in two genres: the
Wolff, however, repudiates such claims. In 1994, in the introduction to "The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories", he wrote,
"To judge from the respectful attention this renaissance has received from reviewers and academics, you would think that it actually happened. It did not. This is a rhetorical flourish to give glamour, even valor, to the succession of one generation by another. The problem with the word "renaissance" is that it needs a dark age to justify itself. I can't think of one, myself... The truth is that the short story form has reliably inspired brilliant performances by our best writers, in a line unbroken since the time of Poe." "
Wolff's 1984
In 1985, Wolff's second short story collection, "
Wolff chronicled his early life in two memoirs. "
Whether he is writing fiction or non-fiction, Wolff's prose is characterized by an exploration of personal/biographical and
In 1989, Wolff was chosen as recipient of the
Film
Wolff's work has found a wider audience through its adaptation to film. "This Boy's Life" became a film starring
In 2001, Wolff's acclaimed short story [http://youtube.com/watch?v=abFe-VBokOY Bullet in the Brain] was adapted into a short film starring
Family
Tobias Wolff's older brother is the author and
Readers of Wolff's memoirs will be interested to learn that Wolff's mother, having settled in
Tobias Wolff is married and has three children.
Partial bibliography
*"Ugly Rumours" (1975), a novel.
*"In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" (1981), a collection of short stories. ISBN 0-88001-497-0
*"Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories" (1983), editor. ISBN 0-931694-17-5
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*"Back in the World" (1985), a collection of short stories.
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*"The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories" (1994), editor. ISBN 0-679-74513-0
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*"The Collected Short Stories" ISBN 0-7475-3153-6
*"The Night in Question" (1997), a collection of short stories. ISBN 0-679-78155-2
*"Old School" (2003), a novel about a student attending an elite boarding school. ISBN 0-375-40146-6.
*"" (2008), a collection of ten new and twenty-one old stories. ISBN 978-1400044597
ee also
References
External links
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/tobiaswolff/ Two audio interviews of Tobias Wolff (1985, 1989) by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, RealAudio]
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n03/maso02_.html Stifled Truth] , an appreciation of Wolff's publications to date, by Wyatt Mason in the
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1130428,00.html "Wolff at the door"] by Tim Adams,
* [http://www.thebayareaintellect.com/tobias-wolff-reads-from-his-new-collection-of-short-stories/ Tobias Wolff Speaks on his latest work, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, at a book store in Northern California (April 2008)]
* [http://dublit.com/node/455 Tobias Wolff reads his short story, "Say Yes" recorded at the Progressive Reading Series, San Francisco 2008]
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