Wolff understands acutely, too, how impossible it is to set down the past and his tales frequently hinge on the inability of adults to escape their own history. Often it is pride and self-deception that come under the microscope: a lawyer's obsession with the truth, say, or a man's determination to avenge himself on the dog that attacked his daughter. Wolff shares with his contemporary, the late Raymond Carver, a concern with duty and the costs of its fulfilment or abdication. These are stories of devastating control, in which tiny, seemingly inconsequential moments reveal the fault lines of a character.
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