Tobias Wolff

En Vida de este chico, Tobias Wolff narra sus recuerdos de niño y adolescente, cuando, divorciados sus padres, recorría con su madre con la que formaba una auténtica «pareja telepática» las carreteras de Estados Unidos de un lado a otro del país. Toby o Jack, como le gusta llamarse a sí mismo en homenaje a su adorado Jack London absorberá entre mapas, whisky, peleas a puñetazos, amistades y traiciones, la esencia de esa América de los años cincuenta que marcará irremediablemente su juventud. Una juventud con toques minimalistas y dickensianos a un tiempo y que sirve aquí a su autor para trazar con humor y ternura el retrato de un tiempo pasado en el espejo de su propia imagen.

This book concentrates some of his best work in one place and reflecting the breadth of his gifts in the short form.

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” es una obra maestra del suspense y la confusión adolescente que nació de una canción de Bob Dylan y de un caso de principios de los 60 que la autora leyó e

OLD SCHOOL

Tobias Wolff''s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can ''provoke our amazed appreciation'' (New York Times Book Review). In the years since he''s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as a pair of genre-defining memoirs (This Boy''s Life and In Pharaoh''s Army), the novella The Barracks Thief, and, most recently, a novel, Old School. Now he returns with fresh revelations - about biding one''s time, or experiencing first love, or burying one''s mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary: a retired Marine enrolled in college while her son trains for Iraq, a lawyer taking a difficult deposition, an American in Rome indulging the gypsy who''s picked his pocket. In these stories, as with his earlier, much-anthologized work, he once again proves himself, according to the Los Angeles Times, ''a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve.''