{"product_id":"our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories-tobias-wolff-paperback","title":"Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories -- Tobias Wolff, Paperback","description":"\"One of our most exquisite storytellers\" \u003ci\u003e(Esquire)\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTobias Wolff's first two books, \u003ci\u003eIn the Garden of the North American Martyrs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBack in the World, \u003c\/i\u003e were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can \"provoke our amazed appreciation,\" as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e wrote then. In the years since, he's written a third collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Night in Question, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as a pair of genre-defining memoirs \u003ci\u003e(This Boy's Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Pharaoh's Army), \u003c\/i\u003e the novella \u003ci\u003eThe Barracks Thief, \u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, a novel, \u003ci\u003eOld School.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow 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 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e \"a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tobias Wolff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400095971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/2009 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, and the PEN\/Faulkner Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tobias Wolff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46446793785572,"sku":"9781400095971","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781400095971.jpg?v=1751217793","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories-tobias-wolff-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}