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Tobias Wolff


Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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Back in the World
Written by Tobias Wolff

eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-78728-6 (0-307-78728-1)

February 16, 2011 | $11.99

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Back in the World
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307787286
Our Price: $11.99


To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the...

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In Pharaoh's Army
Written by Tobias Wolff

eBook | 240 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-76375-4 (0-307-76375-7)

September 1, 2010 | $13.99

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In Pharaoh's Army
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307763754
Our Price: $13.99


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.


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The Night In Question
Written by Tobias Wolff

eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-76374-7 (0-307-76374-9)

September 1, 2010 | $12.99

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The Night In Question
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307763747
Our Price: $12.99


One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the reversal seem inevitable: the dog has attacked...

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Our Story Begins
Written by Tobias Wolff

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-9597-1 (1-4000-9597-2)

April 7, 2009 | $20.00

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Our Story Begins
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400095971
Our Price: $20.00
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This collection of stories—twenty-one classics followed by ten potent new stories—displays Tobias Wolff's exquisite gifts over a quarter century.

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Our Story Begins
Written by Tobias Wolff

Hardcover | 400 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-4459-7 (1-4000-4459-6)

March 25, 2008 | $32.00

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Our Story Begins
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400044597
Our Price: $32.00
   Quantity: 1 


“One of our most exquisite storytellers” (Esquire) gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century.

Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, were a...

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Our Story Begins
Written by Tobias Wolff

eBook | 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-26880-8 (0-307-26880-2)

March 25, 2008 | $13.99

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Our Story Begins
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307268808
Our Price: $13.99


This collection of stories—twenty-one classics followed by ten potent new stories—displays Tobias Wolff's exquisite gifts over a quarter century.


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Old School
Written by Tobias Wolff

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Coming Of Age
978-0-375-70149-8 (0-375-70149-4)

August 31, 2004 | $16.00

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Old School
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375701498
Our Price: $16.00
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The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become...

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Old School
Written by Tobias Wolff

eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Coming Of Age
978-1-4000-9525-4 (1-4000-9525-5)

August 31, 2004 | $11.99

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Old School
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781400095254
Our Price: $11.99


The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Night In Question
Written by Tobias Wolff

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-78155-4 (0-679-78155-2)

September 30, 1997 | $17.00

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The Night In Question
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679781554
Our Price: $17.00
   Quantity: 1 


One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the reversal seem inevitable: the dog has attacked...

Also available as an eBook.

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Back in the World
Written by Tobias Wolff

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-76796-1 (0-679-76796-7)

October 1, 1996 | $15.95

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Back in the World
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679767961
Our Price: $15.95
   Quantity: 1 


To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the...

Also available as an eBook.

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In Pharaoh's Army
Written by Tobias Wolff

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-679-76023-8 (0-679-76023-7)

September 26, 1995 | $17.95

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In Pharaoh's Army
Written by Tobias Wolff

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679760238
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 


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.

Also available as an eBook.

              
              



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