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A Day at the Beach: Recollections

A Day at the Beach: Recollections

Wolff, Geoffrey
Patchett, Ann

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary FiguresGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 0804170096
ISBN13: 9780804170093
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Nov 5 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A memoir of uncommon grace and self-deprecating charm (Newsday) that recounts the moral (and sometimes immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father--from the acclaimed author of The Duke of Deception.

In this essay collection, Geoffrey Wolff shows us his wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases--presided over by his con-man father--then shifts to his brash, short-lived teaching career in Istanbul. With dazzling literary agility, Wolff guides us through the surprising, invaluable turns that shaped his path: his victory over the chaos of drink, his open-heart surgery, his life-affirming surrender to the slopes of the Matterhorn, and his transcendent love of family. Long considered a classic, now expanded and back in print after two decades, A Day at the Beach shares Wolff's spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life.

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