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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
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2013
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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" L (0.55 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
Features: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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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.
 
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