A Day at the Beach by Geoffrey Wolff
"A memoir of uncommon grace and self-deprecating charm" (Newsday) that recounts the moral (and sometimes immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father--from the acclaimed author of The Duke of Deception.In this essay collection, Geoffrey Wolff 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.
Geoffrey Wolff is a well-known novelist, essayist, biographer, and critic in contemporary American literature. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the Director of the Graduate Fiction Program from 1995 to 2006. He was educated at Cambridge and Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude. He formerly worked as a book editor at the Washington Post and Newsweek and served on the faculties of Istanbul University and Princeton University. He is the author of six books, including The Age of Consent (Knopf, 1995), which is set in a small utopian society in upstate New York, and The Last Club (Knopf, 1990), which is about Princeton's covert social networks. Black Sun (Random House, 1976), a literary biography of the short-lived avant-garde poet Harry Crosby; The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara (Knopf, 2003), a literary biography of the American fiction writer; The Duke of Deception (Random House, 1979), a memoir that was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize; and The Edge of Maine (National Geographic, 2005), a rich portrayal of the
In 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Prize in Literature, and he has also earned grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a Member of the American Academy in Berlin in 2007. He and his family reside in Bath, Maine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804170093 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804170096 |
| Title | A Day at the Beach |
| Author | Geoffrey Wolff |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2013-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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