{"product_id":"our-story-begins","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841265479885,"sku":"9781400095971","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_bfc40e62-6383-4acf-8a2a-6ce2be7dc863.jpg?v=1792025795","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/our-story-begins","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}