Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff
Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff
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Our Story Begins
New and Selected Stories

Author: Tobias Wolff

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Unabridged: 13 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/25/2008

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

Tobias Wolffs first two books proved how the short story can provoke our amazed appreciation (New York Times Book Review). Now after writing numerous other works, he returns to the short story with fresh revelationsabout biding ones time, or experiencing first love, or burying ones motherthat 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 whos picked his pocket. In these ten stories, 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.

About Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff is the author of several previous books and the editor of a growing list of anthologies. He has received numerous awards, among them the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story. He lives in Northern California and teaches English and creative writing at Stanford University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on July 23, 2019

An excellent book of short stories. Wolff shows us how people at the end of their ropes make choices. The choices are often genuinely surprising but always in character--there are no easy ironies here. "The Garden of the North American Martyrs," "Desert Breakdown 1968" and "Deep Kiss" are especially......more

Goodreads review by Enrique on August 30, 2022

Muy recomendables las pequeñas narraciones que ofrece T. Wolff. Pequeñas pero grandes, ya me entendéis. Sin poder evitarlo, al leerlo te vienen a la mente ecos de los grandes narradores norteamericanos, a saber: Philip Roth y lo bien que reflejaba la doble moral norteamericana y ese puritanismo absu......more

Goodreads review by Banu on February 08, 2022

bir yandan carver ve cheever’la komşu gibi ama bir yandan epey farklı bir tonu var tobias wolff öykülerinin. kaybolmuş hayatlar, berbat bir çocukluk, parasızlık, şiddet, bir anda bambaşka bir şeye dönüşen av partileri, hayatı başkalarını sömürmekle geçenler ve daha birçok şey. koca bir öykü seçkisind......more

Goodreads review by Cosimo on February 24, 2015

"Siete tutta fiducia nel futuro, il luogo dove ogni cosa andrà a posto. E compassione per il passato, il luogo dove ogni cosa può essere perdonata, una volta compresa. Guardi, lei non capisce niente di storia. Di quanto sia compiuta, storica, appunto. Non se ne può redimere un solo giorno, un solo i......more

Goodreads review by Glenda on May 15, 2008

Tobias Wolff is the acknowledged master of the short story form, and I would argue memoir as well. After briefly meeting the author for the first time, I know that the gravitas and succinctness of his language is balanced by an equally perceptive mind and a quickness of intelligence that seems to ca......more