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A Day at the Beach: Recollections (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804170093)
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x"A memoir of uncommon grace and self-deprecating charm" (Newsday) that recounts the moral (and sometimes immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father--from the acclaimed author of The Duke of Deception.
In this essay collection, Geoffrey Wolff 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.
Author: Geoffrey Wolff
ISBN-10: 0804170096
ISBN-13: 9780804170093
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
In this essay collection, Geoffrey Wolff 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.
Author: Geoffrey Wolff
ISBN-10: 0804170096
ISBN-13: 9780804170093
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
By Geoffrey Wolff
xGEOFFREY WOLFF is the author of six novels and six works of nonfiction, including the memoir The Duke of Deception, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1994 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From 1995 to 2006, he directed the Graduate Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. For his writing, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Bath, Maine.
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