This work places Wolff in the modern realist tradtion as a writer who continues the tradition of such writers as Anton Chekhov and Ernest Hemingway. The author shows how Wolff used fiction to criticize Americans and their culture, and how his Catholicism infused his work. It offers the reader explanations of much of Wolff's short fiction, interviews with Wolff, and book reviews concerning his two collections of short stories.
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