A day at the beach : recollections / Geoffrey Wolff ; introduction by Ann Patchett.

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 dy...

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Main Author: Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937- (Author)
Other Authors: Patchett, Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2013.
Edition:Second Vintage Books Edition.
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