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Our Story Begins

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#352802-XE18
Titel	Our Story Begins
Auteur	Wolff, Tobias
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Bloomsbury
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0747597278
ISBN13	9780747597278
Taal	Nederlands
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, ribbon marker, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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' (New York Times Book Review). 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 ... (Lees verder)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.'
Pagina's	379
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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