London::: Bloomsbury,,, 1996... First Printing of the First English Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection of stories 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 his protagonist's young daughter. And everywhere in The Night in Question, we are reminded that truth is deceptive, volatile, and often the last thing we want to know. A young reporter writes an obituary only to be fired when its subject walks into his office, very much alive. A soldier in Vietnam goads his lieutenant into sending him on increasingly dangerous missions. An impecunious mother and son go window-shopping for a domesticity that is forever beyond their grasp. These fifteen stories deliver small, exquisite shocks that speak to living life intensely.The stories include: Mortals, Casualty, Powder, The Life of the Body, Flyboys, Sanity, The Other Miller, Two Boys and a Girl, Migraine, The Chain, Smorgasbord, Lady's Dream, The Night in Question, Firelight and Bullet in the Brain.

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Tobias Wolff has written about his life in the acclaimed This Boy's Life and in In Pharoah's Army . Born in Alabama, he was raised in Salt Lake City and in the mountains above Seattle. He briefly attended prep school in Pennsylvania, then joined the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He thereafter took degrees at Oxford and Stanford. Since 1980 he has taught literature and writing at Syracuse University.

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Bookseller: Gregor Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26065
Title: The Night in Question: Stories.
Author: Wolff, Tobias
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Printing of the First English Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747528365
ISBN 13: 9780747528364
Publisher: Bloomsbury,,
Place of Publication: London::
Date Published: 1996..
Keywords: Literature

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