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...Tobias Wolff...
...industrial societies like the U.S., however, the problems are less spectacular. In our society there's more leisure for introspection. Too much introspection leads to boredom and boredom makes people go crazy, as a character from Tobias Wolff's short story collection, Back in the World, implies as he speaks about his experiences in Vietnam...
...TOBIAS WOLFF'S Back in the World melodiously fleshes out the improbably festive-sounding trinity of titles of these contemporary short story collections: I Am Having an Adventure, Drunk with Love and Back in the World. This collection however doesn't commit itself to either the confused soul-searching that goes on in Klass' book or the heady hothouse passions that obscure some disturbing authorial attitudes in Drunk with Love...
...Wolff, who won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner award for the novella "The Barracks Thief," writes accurately about the myriad isolations of military life. "The Barracks Thief" is about a boy so angry he has no space for other emotions; he falls naturally into soldiering. "Soldier's Joy" hearkens back to the emotional territory of "The Barracks Thief." The story, like its predecessor, is about how soldiers socialize, or fail to socialize with one another...
...Wolff pointed out that the team has some especially tough matches coming up against top eastern teams at the Eastern League Tournament in Providence, R.I., next weekend...