{"product_id":"our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories","title":"Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eOur Story Begins: New and Selected Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTobias Wolff\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400095971\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e400\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories | Tobias Wolff | Paperback | 9781400095971 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1712436","offer_id":48323375038616,"sku":"1712436","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91T39alaKkL.jpg?v=1773178538","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}