
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads Tobias Wolff
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Language of the Bank Robber - A Novel Review
Both halves of the story are about language in some way. The first half Anders is mocking the cliches that the bank robbers use. In the second as a child he's just elated by discovering ungrammatical vernacular. And yet Toby has given them to a completely odious character.
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