Our Story Begins
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- Synopsis
- "One of our most exquisite storytellers"(Esquire)gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. Tobias Wolff's first two books,In the Garden of the North American MartyrsandBack in the World,were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can "provoke our amazed appreciation," asTheNew York Times Book Reviewwrote then. In the years since, he's written a third collection,The Night in Question,as well as a pair of genre-defining memoirs(This Boy's LifeandIn Pharaoh's Army),the novellaThe Barracks Thief,and, most recently, a novel,Old School. Now he returns with fresh revelations--about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother--that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary: a retired Marine enrolled in college while her son trains for Iraq, a lawyer taking a difficult deposition, an American in Rome indulging the Gypsy who's picked his pocket. In these stories, as with his earlier, much-anthologized work, he once again proves himself, according to theLos Angeles Times,"a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve. "
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307268808
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781400044597, 9780747597278, 9780747597438, 9781400095971, 9781433203992, 9781433246111
- Publisher:
- Knopf
- Date of Addition:
- 12/17/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Tobias Wolff
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.