In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Tobias Wolff''s masterful short story about one woman''s quiet revenge on the pomposity and arrogance of academia
Meticulous, funny, eccentric—Mary has always been mindful of the complex role she plays as a professor of history. Her lectures are carefully written out beforehand; her departmental loyalties ambiguous. She is so careful, in fact, that she began to see herself as flat, dull, and lifele...
Tobias Wolff''s masterful short story about one woman''s quiet revenge on the pomposity and arrogance of academia
Meticulous, funny, eccentric—Mary has always been mindful of the complex role she plays as a professor of history. Her lectures are carefully written out beforehand; her departmental loyalties ambiguous. She is so careful, in fact, that she began to see herself as flat, dull, and lifele...
