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Tobias Wolff. (2008). Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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"Unforgettable.... Wolff's voice is unfailingly authentic, while his embrace of the variety of American experience is knowing, forgiving and all-encompassing." --The New York Times Book Review"A volume that belongs on everybody's shelf. . . . Wolff conjures stories that etch your memory--which is to say, they become a part of you." --Los Angeles Times Book Review"It's impossible to read Tobias Wolff and not come away transformed. . . . [He] fully exposes the good, bad, and ugly about what it means to be alive in this day and age."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"Tender, dazzling, heart-stopping fiction from a master of deep truths and unexpected turns. . . . Intensely pleasurable." --O, The Oprah Magazine "The complexity of emotion [he] evokes within the space of a few pages, from hilarity to heartbreak, is often nothing short of astonishing." --Rocky Mountain News"Sublime art. . . . Wolff's alchemy in these stories is oddly and deeply transformative. They inevitably rise above their ostensible subject into some universal terrain [with] intelligence, compassion and a radical openness to life's unfathomable surprises." --San Francisco Chronicle"Cause for celebration. . . . There's no one else practicing the form with as much warm devotion or cool mastery." --The Washington Post"Wolff is a superb storyteller who makes almost anything he touches ring true." --Newsweek "For thirty years Wolff has been publishing stories that feel yanked from the jagged mouth of real experience and turned into art...The entire moral crux of life pivots on an instant...These stories remind a reader how powerful and important good stories are, especially ones that look unblinkingly into our wicked, yearning hearts." --John Freeman, Sunday Star-Ledger"Adept short stories--whole worlds evoked in just a few pages--[with] the heft and density, the unexpected beauty, of Alice Munro, of Chekhov." --Lisa Jennifer Selzman, Houston Chronicle "Wolff reminds us again and again why we still return to fiction for what we need to know about how people live their lives." --Daniel Torday, Esquire "Restrained, droll, and nearly flawless in structure, Tobias Wolff's keen-edged stories often concern confused folks who want to do the right thing, or at least find a way to allow themselves to believe that they're doing the fith thing...Ten of [these] stories are new, and they're more accomplished than ever." --Karen Karbo, Entertainment Weekly, (Grade A)"[Tobias Wolff] writes with the exacting precision of a bombmaker. With steady hands and sinister ambitions, he crafts his best fictions in miniature, detonating his characters' lives in the time it takes to read a paragraph, crafting tales that turn on a single, diabolical sentence...Wolff's stories are filled with such distillations of intense, life-altering moments, and Our Story Begins presents the best examples from his past quarter century of writing." --Joe Woodward, Poets & Writers"Wolff dexterously probes, in immaculately clear prose, the core of ordinary people's passions and vulnerabilities." --Brad Hooper, Booklist"[Our Story Begins] exhibits classic richness and depth, and it's built to last...An impressive range of contemporary experience is distilled into crisp, urgent little dramas."
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Starred review from December 3, 2007
Wolff's first story collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
(1981), was a major salvo in the short story renaissance that included Raymond Carver. The 10 spare, elegant new stories here, collected with 21 stories from Wolff's three previous collections, are as good as anything Wolff has done. In most, there is a moment of realization, less a startling epiphany than a distant, gradual ache of understanding, that changes how the character looks at the world. The retired, 41-year-old female Marine of “A Mature Student,” compares her female professor's experiences in Communist-era Prague and her own son's service in Iraq. “Deep Kiss” movingly chronicles the fractious results when a teenaged boy, infatuated with a promiscuous classmate, neglects to bond with his dying father. A hilarious description of a brash, ignorant thug in “Her Dog” shows Wolff's gift for demotic speech. In an author's note, Wolff says that since he has never considered any of his stories “sacred texts,” he has edited some “clumsy or superfluous” passages in earlier works. In all the stories, Wolff expertly uses irony and empathy to explore facets of contemporary life.
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January 1, 2008
A long-recognized master of the short story genre, Wolff brings together 21 favorite stories culled fromthree previous collections and adds, for this occasion, 10 new stories never before gathered in book form. This retrospective of his three-decades-long careertestifiesto the short story being his natural agent for personal expression. The opening story, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, a widely acknowledged masterpiece, satirizesacademe, specifically the pretensions inherent in professorial posturing, at the same time sensitively understanding a college professor who gets her quiet revenge against merciless colleagues. Wolffs understanding of the tender aspects of charactersurfacesin another masterpiece, SoldiersJoy, which is set on a military base, and, in parallel with the previously discussed story, pecking order rules the day and everyones life.In any story, in all of them, Wolff dexterously probes, in immaculately clear prose, the coreof ordinary peoplespassions and vulnerabilities.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)
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March 31, 2008
Wolfe's latest round of philosophical and thought-provoking short stories is a rousing collection that spans a wide variety of genres and time periods. Anthony Heald brings the stories to life with vigor, offering fresh voices and complicated, flawed characters, each as original and believable as the last. Heald has a knack for performance, gifting each tale with his flare for theatrics while never trespassing outside of his range in an attempt to impress. His familiar voice abounds with colorful emotions and a certain melancholic ache. Listeners step inside all 21 tales and see the world as Wolfe himself must have: heartbreaking, hilarious and even a little scary at times. A Knopf hardcover (Reviews, Dec. 3, 2007).
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