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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Wolff, Tobias

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1400095972
ISBN13: 9781400095971
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 7 2009
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.

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