Hunters in the Snow
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Hunters in the Snow
| Author | Tobias Wolff |
|---|---|
| Published | 1981 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Tobias Wolff’s short story of three friends deer hunting outside Spokane: one shoots another, and the drive to the hospital becomes the story as the two uninjured men stop for coffee, trade confessions and take a wrong turn while the wounded man lies in the truck bed. Taught as a model of how cruelty, comedy and sympathy can share the same sentences. |
Hunters in the Snow
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in Writing and the English Language on its Fall 2025 reading list (November 2025), next to Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor and Toni Morrison — short prose read by writers for craft, with Wolff as the contemporary American entry. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
About this edition
This is a single story, not a novel. It appeared in Wolff’s first collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981), which was issued in Britain the following year as a book under this story’s title. It is also taught for how much plot a writer can carry in dialogue alone.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this is assigned in.
- Storytelling — the story is assigned as a demonstration of technique.
- Literature — part of the canon this list is built around.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.