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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

by Tobias Wolff

Knopf

March 2008, 400 pages, $26.95

by Matthew Fiander

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Wolff's keen eye for the right phrase, the perfect detail, his ability to represent these characters in all their flawed honesty, make these stories brilliantly his own.

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