num_pages: 175
description: Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."
language: English
title: In the garden of the North American martyrs: A collection of short stories
titlecomplete: In the garden of the North American martyrs: A collection of short stories
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Modern, Fiction, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2561
publisher: ECCO PRESS. NY 1981