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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Hardback)
Short Description for Our Story BeginsA collection of stories with revelations about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother.
Full description- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published: 24 May 2008
- Format: Hardback 400 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780747597278 ISBN 10: 0747597278
- Sales rank: 454,778
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Full description for Our Story Begins
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' (New York Times Book Review). 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.'
