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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781400095971
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Our Story Begins : New and Selected Stories
- Book Series
- Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
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Product Information
This collection of stories--twenty-one classics followed by ten potent new stories--displays Tobias Wolff's exquisite gifts over a quarter century.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400095972
ISBN-13
9781400095971
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70174751
Product Key Features
Book Title
Our Story Begins : New and Selected Stories
Topic
Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
2009
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9in
Item Length
7.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Unforgettable…. Wolff's voice is unfailingly authentic, while his embrace of the variety of American experience is knowing, forgiving and all-encompassing." -The New York Times Book Review "A volume that belongs on everybody's shelf. . . . Wolff conjures stories that etch your memory-which is to say, they become a part of you." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "It's impossible to read Tobias Wolff and not come away transformed. . . . [He] fully exposes the good, bad, and ugly about what it means to be alive in this day and age." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Tender, dazzling, heart-stopping fiction from a master of deep truths and unexpected turns. . . . Intensely pleasurable." -O, The Oprah Magazine "The complexity of emotion [he] evokes within the space of a few pages, from hilarity to heartbreak, is often nothing short of astonishing." -Rocky Mountain News "Sublime art. . . . Wolff's alchemy in these stories is oddly and deeply transformative. They inevitably rise above their ostensible subject into some universal terrain [with] intelligence, compassion and a radical openness to life's unfathomable surprises." -San Francisco Chronicle "Cause for celebration. . . . There's no one else practicing the form with as much warm devotion or cool mastery." -The Washington Post "Wolff is a superb storyteller who makes almost anything he touches ring true." -Newsweek "For thirty years Wolff has been publishing stories that feel yanked from the jagged mouth of real experience and turned into art…The entire moral crux of life pivots on an instant…These stories remind a reader how powerful and important good stories are, especially ones that look unblinkingly into our wicked, yearning hearts." -John Freeman,Sunday Star-Ledger "Adept short storieswhole worlds evoked in just a few pages[with] the heft and density, the unexpected beauty, of Alice Munro, of Chekhov." -Lisa Jennifer Selzman,Houston Chronicle "Wolff reminds us again and again why we still return to fiction for what we need to know about how people live their lives." -Daniel Torday,Esquire "Restrained, droll, and nearly flawless in structure, Tobias Wolff's keen-edged stories often concern confused folks who want to do the right thing, or at least find a way to allow themselves to believe that they're doing the fith thing...Ten of [these] stories are new, and they're more accomplished than ever." -Karen Karbo,Entertainment Weekly, (Grade A) "[Tobias Wolff] writes with the exacting precision of a bombmaker. With steady hands and sinister ambitions, he crafts his best fictions in miniature, detonating his characters' lives in the time it takes to read a paragraph, crafting tales that turn on a single, diabolical sentence…Wolff's stories are filled with such distillations of intense, life-altering moments, andOur Story Beginspresents the best examples from his past quarter century of writing." -Joe Woodward,Poets & Writers "Wolff dexterously probes, in immaculately clear prose, the core of ordinary people's passions and vulnerabilities." -Brad Hooper,Booklist "[Our Story Begins] exhibits classic richness and depth, and it's built to last…An impressive range of contemporary experience is distilled into crisp,, "Unforgettable.... Wolff's voice is unfailingly authentic, while his embrace of the variety of American experience is knowing, forgiving and all-encompassing." The New York Times Book Review "A volume that belongs on everybody's shelf. . . . Wolff conjures stories that etch your memorywhich is to say, they become a part of you." Los Angeles Times Book Review "It's impossible to read Tobias Wolff and not come away transformed. . . . [He] fully exposes the good, bad, and ugly about what it means to be alive in this day and age." The Philadelphia Inquirer "Tender, dazzling, heart-stopping fiction from a master of deep truths and unexpected turns. . . . Intensely pleasurable." O, The Oprah Magazine "The complexity of emotion [he] evokes within the space of a few pages, from hilarity to heartbreak, is often nothing short of astonishing." Rocky Mountain News "Sublime art. . . . Wolff's alchemy in these stories is oddly and deeply transformative. They inevitably rise above their ostensible subject into some universal terrain [with] intelligence, compassion and a radical openness to life's unfathomable surprises." San Francisco Chronicle "Cause for celebration. . . . There's no one else practicing the form with as much warm devotion or cool mastery." The Washington Post "Wolff is a superb storyteller who makes almost anything he touches ring true." Newsweek "For thirty years Wolff has been publishing stories that feel yanked from the jagged mouth of real experience and turned into art...The entire moral crux of life pivots on an instant...These stories remind a reader how powerful and important good stories are, especially ones that look unblinkingly into our wicked, yearning hearts." John Freeman, Sunday Star-Ledger "Adept short storieswhole worlds evoked in just a few pages[with] the heft and density, the unexpected beauty, of Alice Munro, of Chekhov." Lisa Jennifer Selzman, Houston Chronicle "Wolff reminds us again and again why we still return to fiction for what we need to know about how people live their lives." Daniel Torday, Esquire "Restrained, droll, and nearly flawless in structure, Tobias Wolff's keen-edged stories often concern confused folks who want to do the right thing, or at least find a way to allow themselves to believe that they're doing the fith thing...Ten of [these] stories are new, and they're more accomplished than ever." Karen Karbo, Entertainment Weekly , (Grade A)"[Tobias Wolff] writes with the exacting precision of a bombmaker. With steady hands and sinister ambitions, he crafts his best fictions in miniature, detonating his characters' lives in the time it takes to read a paragraph, crafting tales that turn on a single, diabolical sentence...Wolff's stories are filled with such distillations of intense, life-altering moments, and Our Story Begins presents the best examples from his past quarter century of writing." Joe Woodward, Poets & Writers "Wolff dexterously probes, in immaculately clear prose, the core of ordinary people's passions and vulnerabilities." Brad Hooper, Booklist "[ Our Story Begins ] exhibits classic richness and depth, and it's built to last...An impressive range of contemporary experience is distilled into crisp, urgent little dramas." Kirkus Reviews From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Table of Content
A Note from the Author SELECTED STORIES In the Garden of the North American Martyrs Next Door Hunters in the Snow The Liar Soldier's Joy The Rich Brother Leviathan Desert Breakdown, 1968 Say Yes Mortals Flyboys Sanity The Other Miller Two Boys and a Girl The Chain Smorgasbord Lady's Dream Powder The Night in Question Firelight Bullet in the Brain NEW STORIES That Room Awaiting Orders A White Bible Her Dog A Mature Student The Deposition Down to Bone Nightingale The Benefit of the Doubt Deep Kiss
Number of Pages
400 Pages
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