Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories - Paperback

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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories - Paperback

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories - Paperback

by Tobias Wolff
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Book Overview

by Tobias Wolff (Author)

"One of our most exquisite storytellers" (Esquire) gives us a collection of ten potent 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 Martyrs and Back in the World, were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can "provoke our amazed appreciation," as The New York Times Book Review wrote 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 Life and In Pharaoh's Army), the novella The 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 the Los 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."

Author Biography

Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 1 x 8 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: April 07, 2009
ISBN9781400095971
Author Tobias Wolff
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2009
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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