Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
by Tobias Wolff
List Price:
Our Price: $0.99
You Save: $25.96 (96%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.54 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Tobias WolffEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Deckle Edge
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 1400044596
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Knopf
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.?
Short Stories Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Short Stories Books
The Roald Dahl Treasuryby Roald Dahl
Jonathan Cape; Published: 1997; Hardcover; Book
The Red Pony (Twentieth-Century Classics)by John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics; Published: 1994-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.28
Price in other shops:
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountainby Robert Olen Butler
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1993-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.15
Price in other shops:
Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyonby Damon Runyon
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1992-11-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $45.54
How We Are Hungryby Dave Eggers
PENGUIN; Published: 2006-02-23; Paperback; Book
Dressing Up for the Carnivalby Carol Shields
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2001-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.79
Price in other shops:
East, Westby Salman Rushdie
Vintage Books; Published: 2006-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.75
Price in other shops:
Local Girlsby Alice Hoffman
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random; Published: 2000-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.25
Price in other shops:
Someone to Watch Over Me: Storiesby Richard Bausch
Harper Perennial; Published: 2000-05-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.60
Price in other shops:
Faithless: Tales of Transgressionby Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco; Published: 2001-03-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.04
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomicby Alison Bechdel
Houghton Mifflin Company; Mariner Books; Published: 2007-06-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.80
Price in other shops:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Storiesby Raymond Carver
Vintage; Published: 1989-06-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.05
Price in other shops:
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Storiesby Raymond Carver
Vintage; Published: 1989-06-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.90
Price in other shops:
Selected Storiesby Andre Dubus
Vintage; Published: 1996; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.48
Price in other shops:
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short StoriesVintage; Published: 1994-09-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.10
Price in other shops:
Old Schoolby Tobias Wolff
Vintage; Published: 2004-08-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.70
Price in other shops:
This Boy's Life: A Memoirby Tobias Wolff
Grove Press; Published: 2000-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.74
Price in other shops:
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost Warby Tobias Wolff
Vintage; Published: 1995-09-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.37
Price in other shops:
In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs: Storiesby Tobias Wolff
Ecco; Published: 1996-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.24
Price in other shops:
The Night In Question: Storiesby Tobias Wolff
Vintage; Published: 1997-09-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.19
Price in other shops: