![]() ![]() The humor comes in the ability of Wolff to juxtapose the life-endangerment of the wounded friend with the need of the other two, on the way to the hospital, to stop at local diners to get coffee, breakfast, warm up and discuss a few personal situations. By way of an accident (or perhaps it could be called more of a misunderstanding), one of the friends is shot. ![]() Kenny, Tub and Frank go hunting on a winter day in Washington State. So it came as no surprise when they kept popping into my head as I read “Hunters in the Snow”. I discovered the same dark humor included here.Īny time a story contains dark humor and blood and snow, I think of the films of Joel and Ethan Coen – especially Fargo. ![]() For Week 6 of Deal Me In 2016, I selected the Nine of Spades which corresponds to Wolff’s story “Hunters in the Snow”. In 2014, I read Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain” and found it darkly humorous. “The way I look at it, Tub, no man is an island. ![]()
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