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Old School by Tobias Wolff (2004, Paperback, Reprint) 
Old School by Tobias Wolff (2004, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Old School by Tobias Wolff (2004, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Series: Vintage Contemporaries Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375701494
ISBN-13: 9780375701498
Product ID: EPID30507464
Description: The narrator of short-story/memoir writer Tobias Wolff's first novel is a prep school boy on scholarship in the early 1960s--a boy whose background is something like the author's. A promising writer, he rises to the top in the school, an...
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Synopsis
The narrator of short-story/memoir writer Tobias Wolff's first novel is a prep school boy on scholarship in the early 1960s--a boy whose background is something like the author's. A promising writer, he rises to the top in the school, and when Hemingway stops by and singles out one of the narrator's stories for praise, what should be a high point of the boy's life turns out to be a catastrophe. Set during a time and in a milieu when writing and literature were of the highest importance, OLD SCHOOL is both a nostalgic look back and a sensitive exploration of adolescence. Most of all, it is a celebration of the writing life, illuminating it from the perspective of one of America's most accomplished fiction writers. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

Details
Publication Date:2004-09-01
Series:Vintage Contemporaries Series
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:195 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Publisher's Note
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself.

The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.

Industry Reviews
"[OLD SCHOOL] is a fine offering, manly in spirit and style, less hangdog than the somewhat Carverian memoir. Throughout OLD SCHOOL, Wolff displays exceptional skill in capturing the small sights and sensations that evoke the whole rarefied world he's taking us back to...."
Atlantic Monthly - Thomas Mallon (12/01/2003)

"Tobias Wolff possesses a clarity of style which is singular and singularly affecting. He brings characters alive....Replete with both nostalgia for a more innocent world, and also frustration with a more naive one, Tobias Wolff's story shows us that there is no substitute for experience. An illuminating contemporary masterpiece which no thoughtful reader should ignore."
Literary Review - Peter Straus (02/01/2004)

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