Back in the World
10 best books like Back in the World (Tobias Wolff): Underworld, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, Close Range, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, No Great Mischief, Rock Springs, False Memory, The Angel on the Roof
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0330369954 |
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold War and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people...
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0679722319 |
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greatest practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers.
'Where I'm Calling From', his last collection,...
| Author | Annie Proulx |
| ISBN | 0684852225 |
Short-story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes.
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the portraits...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0099449897 |
And here it is...the best collection of short stories I've ever read.
Where has Carver been all my life? Why did no one slap me over the head with his work fifteen years ago? I mourn that it took me this long to discover him and now I must get my little claws on everything Carver asap.
How the...
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
| Author | Loretta Lynn |
| ISBN | 0306810379 |
Born in 1935 into abject poverty, married at age thirteen, and a grandmother by age twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential singers in modern country music. The first woman to be named the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year, Lynn boasts sixteen...
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 1594481520 |
In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under the rule of the power-hungry and tyrannical Phil, setting off a chain of injustice and mass hysteria.An Animal Farm for the 21st century, this is an incendiary...
| Author | Alistair MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0393341194 |
Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.
Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0099448971 |
Richard Ford with Raymond Carver
This collection of ten short stories published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series is Richard Ford at his best. Certainly, Ford would go on to write a string of first-rate novels, but these short stories are some of the finest American...
| Author | Dean Koontz |
| ISBN | 0553580221 |
I really enjoyed False Memory, perhaps not as much as some of Koontz' more traditional works of fiction, though. It's a powerful, eerie and deeply psychological novel in nature, sure to impress many horror fans, but its characters were very conventional and aside from a few great page-turning moments,...
| Author | Russell Banks |
| ISBN | 0060931256 |
With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works,...
| Author | Christina Baker Kline |
| ISBN | 0688177247 |
Alison and Charlie, Claire and Ben seem like two picture-perfect couples. Alison and Charlie have a beautiful family and a home in the suburbs, while Claire and Ben's marriage revolves around their careers and city-based lives. Despite their differences, the two couples have remained close friends...
