The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories by Tobias Wolff

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Narratorappears in River of Names

The narrator of "River of Names" is a lesbian woman who is trying to escape her past by making up a happy childhood when she talks to her girlfriend, Jessie. However, her past comes back to haunt her and the fake childhood she has invented seems to make the memories all the worse.

Walterappears in All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona

Walter is the protagonist of All the Way...

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Tobias (Jonathan Ansell) Wolff

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Tobias Wolff provided a definition of the guiding principles behind his own stories in explaining his choices of the works of others for Matters of Life and Death (1983), the anthology of contemporary... Read more

Tobias Wolff

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"I was a liar myself when I was a kid. I'm still a liar, really, and I don't mean just in terms of telling stories and being a story writer. I wouldn't ever want to be held to a literal version of the... Read more

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