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Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an American author and professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he directed the university's M.F.A creative writing program until 2006.

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Werke von Geoffrey Wolff

The Best American Essays 1989 (1989) — Herausgeber — 100 Exemplare
The Age of Consent (1995) 91 Exemplare
Providence (1986) 78 Exemplare
The Final Club (1990) 54 Exemplare
Edge of Maine (Directions) (2005) 39 Exemplare
The Edward Hoagland reader (1979) 27 Exemplare
Inklings (1977) 14 Exemplare
The Sightseer (1974) 3 Exemplare
Bad debts (1969) 3 Exemplare
Don't 1 Exemplar

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Modern American Memoirs (1995) — Mitwirkender — 189 Exemplare
Granta 34: Death of a Harvard Man (1990) — Mitwirkender — 159 Exemplare
Granta 37: The Family (1991) — Mitwirkender — 155 Exemplare
The Granta Book of the Family (1995) — Mitwirkender — 88 Exemplare
An Outside Chance: Classic & New Essays on Sport (1990) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben52 Exemplare
A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (1993) — Mitwirkender — 20 Exemplare
Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry (2009) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare

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A fascinating topic from the pen of a superlative nonfiction stylist; highly recommended if you're interested in a representative figure of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris.
 
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Mark_Feltskog | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 23, 2023 |
This is a strange story on several counts. It recalls a convoluted childhood and path to a successful adult life, and in a departure from other "bad parent" memoirs, the author begins by trying to understand his father by first reaching to understand his father's childhood. I think this is something that all memoirists should do, before they lay the blame for their unsatisfactory childhoods at their parents' doorstep. It is complex, disturbing, revealing. I think it could have been a little better if the author had focused a bit more on their childhood positives, as there had to be enough to carry them forward. On the other hand, then it wouldn't have been the story that I read. Since it was published over 40 years ago, I am late to the party but I found it still relevant.… (mehr)
 
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Cantsaywhy | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 3, 2023 |
This book had about 100 interesting pages in it. Unfortunately, flipping through and finding them was a challenge. It took me an unbelievable amount of time to finish, because it literally put me to sleep more times than I can count. Also, Harry Crosby was a total dirtbag, privileged misogynist asshole.
 
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lemontwist | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 4, 2023 |
Wow, what a bummer to be Geoffrey Wolff and have a father like Trump, who thinks he should never have to pay debts. I imagine that's how Trump's kids feel. His family had to move all over the place when the bills caught up with them. When Geoff was grown up, his father expected him to get him a job, let him move in with him . . . Aargh​!
 
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burritapal | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 23, 2022 |

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