Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories

by Tobias Wolff

Book Overview

The writers included here represent no school. They see things in different, even contradictory ways. Taken together, their stories express a variety of responses not only to the lives that they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931694175
• ISBN13: 9780931694172
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Wampeter Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The book to have on a deserted island.

This collection of short stories chronicles an era. "Walking Out" by David Quammen is a haunting story of a boy's passage into manhood. The interaction of and the depiction of characters in "Testimony of Pilot" is spectatular. Every story is priceless and compelling. I lent my copy out more than seven years ago and have been trying to locate a replacement ever since. Tobias Wolff compiled a masterpiece in Matters of Life and Death.