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Old school : a novel / Tobias Wolff.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0375401466
  • ISBN: 9780375401466
  • Physical Description: 195 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Knopf, [2003]
Subject:
Preparatory school students > Fiction.
Preparatory schools > Fiction.
Creative writing > Fiction.
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Authors > Fiction.
New England > Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.

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