A day at the beach
Subtitle: recollections
By: Geoffrey Wolff
Edition: Second Vintage Books Edition.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780804170093
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: American Authors; Biography
Description: With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a victory over the chaos of drink to a life-affirming surrender to the majesty of the Matterhorn; and from a foundering friendship to the transcending love of family.  He shares with us, then, the wisdom of an alert man learning through the unsettling collisions of time, place, and local custom, and through the force of hardship and hazard, to bring his many disparate selves together -- with astonishing high-stakes candor and dazzling literary agility.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, in 1992.