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An edition of Old School (2003)

Old school

a novel

1st ed.
  • 16 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
Pages
195

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Cover of: Old School
Old School
February 7, 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Old School
January 19, 2004, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Bloomsbury Publishing
Hardcover in English
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Old school: a novel
2004, RB Large Print, Knopf, 2003
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Cover of: Old School
Old School
August 31, 2004, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Old school
Old school: a novel
2003, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Old school
Old school: a novel
2003, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.O558 O43 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
195 p. ;
Number of pages
195

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3687658M
Internet Archive
oldschoolnovel0000wolf
ISBN 10
0375401466
ISBN 13
9780375401466
LCCN
2003052930
OCLC/WorldCat
52268764
Library Thing
3538
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
525749

Work Description

The 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.

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