About Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff showed a bit of his own homecoming after a year as an adviser to the
Vietnamese army. Joining the American army had been essential to Wolff's "idea of
legitimacy" because the men he had respected as he was growing up,and most of the
writers he looked up to, had all served. When Wolff came back from Vietnam, he
spent a week alone in a San Francisco hotel room feeling not "freedom and
pleasure" as he had expected but "aimlessness and solitude." It wasn't the U.S.
Army he missed; there was a more troubling condition that he saw reflected in his
own image. Without his army headgear, he seemed "naked and oversized . . . newly
hatched, bewildered, without history." "Broodingly alone," he knew that he could
not reenter the "circle" of his family, and so he avoided its members: "It did
not seem possible to stand in the center of that circle. I did not feel equal to
it. I felt morally embarrassed."
Here are a couple links to pages about Tobias Wolff(Including a picture from
Vietnam):
http://www.sewanee.edu/sreview/Hoy103.3.453.html
Talks a little about Tobias Wolff, the Vietnam War, and a little on what
happened, also talks a little about his book, "In Pharaoh's Army".
http://info.utas.edu.au/docs/ahugo/tws/X0018_3.14PharaohsArmyWOLF.html
Talks a little about Wolff, his book, "In Pharaoh's Army", and about how he
felt about his book.
http://www.bluemarble.net/~smumc/m960506.html
Talks a little about "In Pharaoh's Army", and a little on Wolff.
http://www.auschron.com/issues/vol14/issue34/lagniappe.html
Talks a little about "In Pharaoh's Army", and a little about Wolff
himself.
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