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020 $a9781400095254 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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100 1 $aWolff, Tobias $q(Tobias Wolff).
245 10 $aOld School$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$c2004.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aThe author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy's Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award--winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel.Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted. The school's mystique is rooted in Literature, and for many boys this becomes an obsession, editing the review and competing for the attention of visiting writers whose fame helps to perpetuate the tradition. Robert Frost, soon to appear at JFK's inauguration, is far less controversial than the next visitor, Ayn Rand. But the final guest is one whose blessing a young writer would do almost anything to gain.No one writes more astutely than Wolff about the process by which character is formed, and here he illuminates the irresistible power, even the violence, of the self-creative urge. Resonant in ways at once contemporary and timeless, Old School is a masterful achievement by one of the finest writers of our time.From the Hardcover edition.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$d2004.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 802 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 197 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 802 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 197 KB).
653 #0 $aFiction
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
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