Our story begins new and selected stories
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433246111 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433246112 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Ashland : Blackstone Audio, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:06:00. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Anthony Heald. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 188275 KB; MP3 file size: 368958 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | First loves -- Fiction Mothers and sons -- Fiction Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Short stories. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Tobias Wolff's first two books proved how the short story can "provoke our amazed appreciation" (New York times book review). Now after writing numerous other works, he returns to the short story 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 ten stories, 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."