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    <body><![CDATA[Tobias Wolff is the acknowledged master of the short story form, and I would argue memoir as well.  After briefly meeting the author for the first time, I know that the gravitas and succinctness of his language is balanced by an equally perceptive mind and a quickness of intelligence that seems to c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20796560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By MARC WEINGARTEN<br/><br/>When it comes to mapping the calibrations of the human heart, no writer working today is as exacting a cartographer as Tobias Wolff. Bucking the modernist tide, Wolff writes shapely short stories with structural integrity about ordinary people with desperation haunting ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19405316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Acclaimed writer Marianne Wiggins notes in the<em> Los Angles Times</em>: &quot;When it's done well, the economy, the rigor, the precision that the [short story] demands are hardly noticed by its consumer. But it is more difficult to write, in its line-to-line execution, than any other narrative conceit. And...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463269">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a general rule I tend to shy away from books with photos of the author on the back cover. This one has an author photo on the front cover! Ahhh! At least his name isn't in larger font than the title....<br/><br/>I had not read anything by Tobias Wolff before this, and found the entire volume to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23232939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I may be a little bias on this one, cause if you ask me (go ahead, ask!) I'll tell you that I think Tobias Wolff is the greatest living American writer.  This greatest hits collection has all of his best stories: &quot;In the Garden of North American Martyrs,&quot; &quot;Hunters in the Snow&quot; (o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39323997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great collection, on the whole. There are many gems here, to be sure, but there also seems to be a lack of impact in some.  Firelight, for example, has a slow and haunting resonance, as do The Other Miller and Bullet in the Brain-- others seem to miss the mark, leaving me without (as one reviewer ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21942565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I skipped around and read about half of the stories, maybe a little more, but I'm ready to be done now. The stories strike me as well-crafted in a traditional sense, but they're incredibly depressing. Wolff seems to writing more from a morally instructive perspective than a loving perspective, i.e. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31603394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It has become clearer lately that, until spring is fully here (along with its hours spent reading in the Park), short stories are my best bet. I think I finally read one too many interesting reviews of mr wolff, so I had to give him a try. So far, we're getting along quiet well, though I am finding ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19696748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Toby Wolff is one of those writers--Richard Ford, Alice Munroe, Ian McEwan, and Phillip Roth are others--who always set me back on my heels with their unflinching, clear-eyed view of human aspiration and failure. This collection of Wolff's stories can be read front to back, and in every piece I foun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48522959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an amazing collection of short stories that anyone would enjoy.  Wolff is capable of writing from the perspective of a diverse range of people of various ages, genders, stations in life, etc. with a true and natural voice.  He can remember precisely what it was like to be a kid interacting w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73587961">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OUR STORY BEGINS BY TOBIAS WOLFF: In this new anthology, one of our most eminent short story writers, Tobias Wolff, offers up some old stories – some we’ve seen before – as well as new and fresh tales.  Our Story Begins is a perfect introduction to the writing style and complex plot-minded min...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53472292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an amazing read.  Tobias Wolff shines in this set of substantive short stories.  I was blown away by all of the different kinds of characters he's conjured.  All of the stories are about the human experience--and none wrap up all of the loose ends nicely.  I could not put this book down--bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48169884">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had been looking forward to reading this book for a long time.  When I finally got around to opening the book and reading the Note from the Author, I was disappointed to realize that more than half of the book was short stories of his that I had already read in other books, years ago.  But I rerea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24543307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stupid Michiko Kakutani. I was reading along and loving it; the stories from <em>The Night in Question</em>, which is one of my favorite books ever, remain astonishing to me. But I was reading one of the early ones, about this hunting trip with three guy friends that devolves into horrific black comedy, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23101417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wolff is arguably our best short story writer, the American most likely to fall short of William Trevor or Alice Munro in the world competition. (If you’re interested in the argument there is Edward Jones and E. Annie Proulx to consider. And others I’m sure. For example, I’ve not yet read Debo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22422009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is worth picking up if you are not already familiar with Wolff's work. It contains nearly all the stories from all his previous collections and nine (I think) ones new to this collection, one of which I read when it it was published elsewhere.<br/><br/>&quot;Hunters in the Snow&quot; is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20719694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This new volume contains mostly work written much earlier.  There are about a half dozen new works at the end of the book.  These are literary short stories, certainly character-driven.  You will not meet a more interesting bunch of people than you will in Tobias Wolff's stories.  Sometimes I wanted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22926849">more...</a>]]></body>
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