Wolff, Tobias - Thomas Sutcliffe (review date 30 July 1982)
Thomas Sutcliffe (review date 30 July 1982)
SOURCE: Sutcliffe, Thomas. “Things Falling Apart.” Times Literary Supplement (30 July 1982): 815.
[In the following review, Sutcliffe calls Hunters in the Snow dispiriting and remarks that the stories' individual strengths are overshadowed by the collection's dejected tone.]
Short stories are sometimes referred to as if they were an endangered species, urgently in need of acts of conservation by well-disposed publishers and fiction editors who can commission collections and anthologies. Reading Hunters in the Snow it is hard not to feel that in some cases benign neglect might be a more effective policy, leaving the genre to work out its own survival in the environment of glossy monthlies and literary reviews. It isn't that Tobias Wolff's collection contains a single story that shouldn't have been published at some time, somewhere. His melancholy and regretful accounts of the...
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