GEOFFREY WOLFF is the author of six novels and six works of nonfiction, including the memoir The Duke of Deception, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1994 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From 1995 to 2006, he directed the Graduate Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. For his writing, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Bath, Maine.
“A memoir of uncommon grace and self-deprecating charm. . . .
Buoyant and forceful.” —Newsday
“Wolff is always a dream to read. . . . A Day at the Beach is a
délice from one of America’s best memoirists.” —The Village
Voice
“Sparkling. . . . Style is the hero of these essays. . . . [Wolff]
has lived a rich, full life that sounds almost Victorian in its mix
of adventure and stability.” —The New York Times
“More fun, more instructive, more heartwarming than any day at the
beach I can recall. A splendid collection.” —George Plimpton
“Elegant. . . . Provide[s] an upbeat counterpoint to the troubled
father-son relationship chronicled in The Duke of Deception. . . .
In Geoffrey Wolff, America is blessed.” —Los Angeles Times
“Honest and touching. . . . [Wolff explores] the romance of
building the clean well-lighted sentence.” —Chicago Tribune
“Exhilarating. . . . Conjures up a diversity of scenes, set in
locations ranging from Istanbul to Greenwich Village to a Caribbean
beach.” —Publishers Weekly
“Wolff is one of the all-time great yarn spinners, and the texture
of his prose is a marvel.” —Frank Conroy
“A Day at the Beach is at once charming and deeply moving. Anyone
who admired The Duke of Deception will be drawn to this compelling
memoir.” —Richard Selzer
“It’s impossible to read Geoffrey Wolff’s essays without being
reminded what good writing is for. The complexities, the
punishments, the exuberance of having a full life are his subject.
There is no parsimony here, no falseness, no evasion. There is just
the deeply satisfying familiarity of Wolff’s voice. You sense the
completeness of the man in the writer.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg
“A Day at the Beach sneaks up on you in several places with
remarkably steady views of American values in the face of
mortality. It is an absorbing book, literate, full of life and
marvelous information.” —Thomas McGuane
“Wolff has ripened through the years to a generous empathy and a
supple specificity that mark him as a very special talent. As a
story-telling essayist, he can be bravura, gentle or informative,
balancing mercy with incongruity. One reads him wishing he were in
the room.” —Edward Hoagland
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