Saturday, March 4, 2023

The Night in Question

 

I watched A Boy's Life when I was nineteen and immediately read the book which was an autobiography written by Wolff. I'm surprised it took me twenty years to read another book by the author. He's a good writer. I just kept putting it off. This is a pretty good short story collection. My favorite story here has to be The Chain. It's about a man who lets his best friend get revenge on the people who've done him wrong. The story shows that this man is far from a good man. His sense of justice is twisted and does more harm than what took in his own life. I also liked The Life of the Body which was about a man's obsession with a woman he meets at a bar. Wolff has got his stories published in places like The New Yorker which generally means he's a good writer. He's worth a read.

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