{"product_id":"our-story-begins-9781400095971","title":"Our Story Begins","description":"\u003cb\u003e“One of our most exquisite storytellers” \u003ci\u003e(Esquire)\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a collection of ten potent stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTobias Wolff’s first two books, \u003ci\u003eIn the Garden of the North American Martyrs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBack in the World,\u003c\/i\u003e were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation,” as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e wrote then. In the years since, he’s written a third collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Night in Question,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as a pair of genre-defining memoirs \u003ci\u003e(This Boy’s Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Pharaoh’s Army),\u003c\/i\u003e the novella \u003ci\u003eThe Barracks Thief,\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, a novel, \u003ci\u003eOld School.\u003c\/i\u003e\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these stories, as with his earlier, much-anthologized work, he once again proves himself, according to the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times,\u003c\/i\u003e “a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve.”","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62342183223683,"sku":"9781400095971","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781400095971.jpg?v=1786175061","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/our-story-begins-9781400095971","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}