{"product_id":"our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories","title":"Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories","description":"Used Hardcover in Very Good condition. “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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTobias 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 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.”\u003cp\u003eISBN: 1400044596\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 1400044596\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 1400044596\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wolff, Tobias","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53935094104347,"sku":"mon0000800755","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/12814033482686.jpg?v=1789256419","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}