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Our Story Begins

New and Selected Stories

Tobias Wolff author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:3rd Aug '09

Should be back in stock very soon

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This is essential reading for all fans of Tobias Wolff and fans of big North American fiction, like Richard Ford, Alice Munro and Raymond Carver. A new atmospheric look will broaden the market for Our Story Begins. Review coverage has been exceptional and further paperback coverage is anticipated.

An outstanding collection of new and classic stories, from one of America's greatest living short story writersOur Story Begins combines twenty-one of Tobias Wolff's classic stories with ten potent new works, spanning three decades and confirming Wolff's status as a master of the genre. These stories of war, morality, frustration, loneliness and love trace a path through the everyday and the extraordinary, shedding a poignant yet hopeful light on American life and the intricate truths of human nature.

'Great is an overused word but Tobias Wolff justifies it. This is an essential book which demonstrates the enduring talent of a truly great writer' Spectator 'Masterly Nothing happens and yet everything happens in less than nine pages. The effect is devastating' Sunday Telegraph 'To read a Tobias Wolff story is to sink into the soft seat of your grandfather's strong, modest old Buick and let yourself be carried through an America of small towns, small joys, small struggles and small despairs - a landscape so familiar as to be invisible, the landscape of homeland' New York Times 'Lucid, funny, sad, never knowingly overstated, his best stories are small miracles of writerly technique the best introduction to this fine writer's fiction' Guardian

ISBN: 9780747597438

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm

Weight: unknown

400 pages