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A Day at the Beach
Recollections
Taschenbuch von Geoffrey Wolff
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
GEOFFREY 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780804170093
ISBN-10: 0804170096
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wolff, Geoffrey
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 204 x 134 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Geoffrey Wolff
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2013
Gewicht: 0,264 kg
Artikel-ID: 121055529
Über den Autor
GEOFFREY 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780804170093
ISBN-10: 0804170096
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wolff, Geoffrey
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 204 x 134 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Geoffrey Wolff
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2013
Gewicht: 0,264 kg
Artikel-ID: 121055529
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