{"product_id":"our-story-begins","title":"Our Story Begins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Our Story Begins (Hardcover, 400 pages – Knopf, 2008) – Knopf, 2008. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tobias Wolff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53093261541600,"sku":"9781400044597","price":209.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/81R46PA6scL._SY522.jpg?v=1781640202","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/our-story-begins","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}