| A Day at the Beach: Recollections Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wolff, Geoffrey (Author), Patchett, Ann (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0804170096 ISBN-13: 9780804170093 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Family & Relationships |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014381826 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this essay collection, now with a new introduction by Ann Patchett, Geoffrey Wolff recounts the moral (and sometimes immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father. He shows us his wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases--presided over by his con-man father--then shifts to his brash, short-lived teaching career in Istanbul. With dazzling literary agility, Wolff guides us through the surprising, invaluable turns that shaped his path: his victory over the chaos of drink, his open-heart surgery, his life-affirming surrender to the slopes of the Matterhorn, and his transcendent love of family. Long considered a classic, now expanded and back in print after two decades, A Day at the Beach shares Wolff's spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life. |