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TOBIAS WOLFF - Our Story Begins

Title: Our Story Begins
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 379. "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 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.". ISBN: 9781400044597. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9781400044597

Price: EUR 11.50 = appr. US$ 12.50 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2264843

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