Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
by Tobias Wolff

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
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Author: Tobias Wolff
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 1400044596
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Knopf

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Book Review: Master storyteller returns!
Summary: 5 Stars

The short story was almost a lost art when "In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs: Stories" was released in 1981. In this volume 10 new stories are combined with 21 stories from Wolff's previous books, and makes for the ultimate Wolff collection. If you know this author you know how good he is, if you have never read Wolff, do dive in, you won't be disappointed. I also want to put in a good word for "Misfits Country" a recently released novel that deserves more publicity.

Summary of Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

“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.”

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