Tobias Wolff Audio & Video

Heralded instantly upon publication by the critics, "This Boy's Life" has come to be universally recognized as a true modern classic of autobiography.

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime.

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor, and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.

The Cross Country Runner brings together The Last Worthless Evening, Andre Dubus' fifth collection of short stories and novellas...

Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers....

Tobias Wolff’s first two books proved how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation” (New York Times Book Review).