--- product_id: 17744525 title: "Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories" price: "€ 34.56" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/17744525-our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories **Price:** € 34.56 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories - **How much does it cost?** € 34.56 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/17744525-our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description “One of our most exquisite storytellers” (Esquire) gives us a collection of ten potent stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. 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: a retired Marine enrolled in college while her son trains for Iraq, a lawyer taking a difficult deposition, an American in Rome indulging the Gypsy who’s picked his pocket. 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.” Review: Wonderful Collection of Short Stories - Really enjoyed reading this collection. Wolff knows how to keep you turning the pages. I appreciate desertcart offering collections like this at a great price. Review: Masterful story teller - Tobias writes beautifully. Each one of these stories is a small miracle of expression. Reading this collection of stories will create strong feelings of empathy toward our common human plight. I also encourage you to read his masterpieces “In Pharaoh’s Army” and “This Boy’s Life”. Tobias Wolff is a superb stylist treasure you should not miss. He will enrich your life. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #173,339 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,780 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #2,157 in Short Stories Anthologies #2,197 in Short Stories (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 215 Reviews | ## Images ![Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91T39alaKkL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful Collection of Short Stories *by E***S on June 7, 2025* Really enjoyed reading this collection. Wolff knows how to keep you turning the pages. I appreciate Amazon offering collections like this at a great price. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Masterful story teller *by M***Z on October 16, 2020* Tobias writes beautifully. Each one of these stories is a small miracle of expression. Reading this collection of stories will create strong feelings of empathy toward our common human plight. I also encourage you to read his masterpieces “In Pharaoh’s Army” and “This Boy’s Life”. Tobias Wolff is a superb stylist treasure you should not miss. He will enrich your life. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ New Collection Drawn From Several Decades *by M***B on July 9, 2020* I bought this book for Mortals, which I would rate 5 stars. This is a collection of stories written during a couple decades so there is variety and development as life changed the author. It is also representative of the author’s total body of work because they aren’t all recently written, new stories. There are some stories that do not have the typical story structure of rising conflict, resolution, and denouement. Some stories have more impact than others and some are livelier than others. This collection pulls together stories that may have been published elsewhere but some have never been published. As such you may find here a story that you always loved and a story you never read. Tobias Wolff writes in the forward about whether he has reworked or edited any of these stories. You’ll have to read to find out. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/17744525-our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/17744525-our-story-begins-new-and-selected-stories) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-09-11*