They inevitably rise above their ostensible subject into some universal terrain intelligence, compassion and a radical openness to life's unfathomable surprises.' -San Francisco Chronicle 'Cause for celebration. Wolff's alchemy in these stories is oddly and deeply transformative. Intensely pleasurable.' -O, The Oprah Magazine 'The complexity of emotion evokes within the space of a few pages, from hilarity to heartbreak, is often nothing short of astonishing.' -Rocky Mountain News 'Sublime art.

fully exposes the good, bad, and ugly about what it means to be alive in this day and age.' -The Philadelphia Inquirer 'Tender, dazzling, heart-stopping fiction from a master of deep truths and unexpected turns. Wolff conjures stories that etch your memory-which is to say, they become a part of you.' -Los Angeles Times Book Review 'It's impossible to read Tobias Wolff and not come away transformed. Wolff's voice is unfailingly authentic, while his embrace of the variety of American experience is knowing, forgiving and all-encompassing.' -The New York Times Book Review 'A volume that belongs on everybody's shelf.

Bullet to the brain tobias wolff