Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
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| Author | Tobias Wolff |
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| Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | March 28, 2008 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4000-4459-7 |
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories is a collection of thirty-one short stories by American author Tobias Wolff published in 2008.[1][2] The collection is divided into two sections: Selected Stories and New Stories. It also contains a brief preface titled "A Note from the Author" in which Wolff defends his decision to edit some of the previously published stories.
The Selected Stories section contains twenty-one previously published stories. The table of contents in the collection just lists the story titles. Below, these are given as well as the volume in which they were previously published or collected:
From In the Garden of the North American Martyrs:
- "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs"
- "Next Door"
- "Hunters in the Snow"
- "The Liar"
From Back in the World (1985)
- "Soldier's Joy"
- "The Rich Brother"
- "Leviathan"
- "Desert Breakdown"
- "Say Yes"
From The Night in Question (1996):
- "Mortals"
- "Flyboys"
- "Sanity"
- "The Other Miller"
- "Two Boys and a Girl"
- "The Chain"
- "Smorgasbord"
- "Lady's Dream"
- "Powder"
- "The Night in Question"
- "Firelight"
- "Bullet in the Brain"