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Posted in Short Stories on Sep 25th, 2008
New and Collected Stories
by Tobias Wolff
reviewed by John Murphy
Our Story Begins collects new and older short-stories by Tobias Wolff, one of America’s acknowledged masters of the genre. Wolff-hounds will recognize canonical works like “Hunters in the Snow,” “Bullet in the Brain,” and “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” short-form masterpieces that have long-since established Wolff’s reputation [...]
plots from Shakespeare and the myth of St. George and the Dragon inspire this provocative mystery-thriller by CatholicFiction.net editor Debra Murphy.
More about the book....
Within the last few decades, in countries like Britain or the United States, the literary intelligentsia has grown large enough to constitute a world in itself. One important result of this is that the opinions which a writer feels frightened of expressing are not those which are disapproved of by society as a whole….In our own day, the English novelist who has most conspicuously defied his contemporaries is Evelyn Waugh.
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