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Tobias Wolff - Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Kepler's Bookstore

April 24, 2008

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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,” as The New York Times Book Review wrote then. 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. 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.” Among Tobias Wolff’s honors are the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award, both for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University.

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  April 24, 2008

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  7:30pm

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  Kepler's Books

  1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025

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  • Event Name: Tobias Wolff - Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
    "Write Up of Wolff's Talk at Kepler's"
    Comment posted by: David R. from Oakland, California, May 05, 2008
    

    There is an interesting write up of Wolff's talk on www.TheBayAreaIntellect.com.

    There is an interesting write up of Wolff's talk on www.TheBayAreaIntellect.com.

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