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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Tobias Wolff's first two books proved how the short story can "provoke our amazed appreciation" ( New York Times Book Review). 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 enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
In this potent new collection, the first in over a decade, Wolff displays his mastery over a quarter century, once again proving himself "a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve." (Los Angeles Times)
©2008 Tobias Wolff (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
What the critics say
"[A]s good as anything Wolff has done...Wolff expertly uses irony and empathy to explore facets of contemporary life." ( Publishers Weekly)
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