An outstanding collection of new and classic stories, from one of America's greatest living short story writers

Our Story Begins combines twenty-one of Tobias Wolff's classic stories with ten potent new works, spanning three decades and confirming Wolff's status as a master of the genre.

These stories of war, morality, frustration, loneliness and love trace a path through the everyday and the extraordinary, shedding a poignant yet hopeful light on American life and the intricate truths of human nature.

'Lucid, funny, sad, never knowingly overstated, his best stories are small miracles of writerly technique ... the best introduction to this fine writer's fiction'