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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375701494

ISBN-139780375701498

eBay Product ID (ePID)30507464

Product Key Features

Book TitleOld School

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicFamily Life, General, Literary, Coming of Age

GenreFiction

AuthorTobias Wolff

Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.4 Oz

Item Length7.4 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-052930

Reviews"Ingenious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Achieves a real profundity. "- The Boston Globe " A sharply drawn, acutely felt novel of moral inquiry. . . . Wolff has put his readers in the landscape tracked across by writers as different as J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and, going back, Conrad and Hawthorne." - The Washington Post Book World "The kind of deceptively quiet novel that deserves a second, slow reading. An homage to the power of story to move, to awaken and even to transform." - The Plain Dealer "Gentle, reserved, graceful. . . . Wolff again proves himself to be a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions." - Los Angeles Times, "Ingenious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Achieves a real profundity. "-The Boston Globe "A sharply drawn, acutely felt novel of moral inquiry. . . . Wolff has put his readers in the landscape tracked across by writers as different as J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and, going back, Conrad and Hawthorne." -The Washington Post Book World "The kind of deceptively quiet novel that deserves a second, slow reading. An homage to the power of story to move, to awaken and even to transform." -The Plain Dealer "Gentle, reserved, graceful. . . . Wolff again proves himself to be a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions." -Los Angeles Times

Dewey Edition22

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SynopsisDetermined 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 protagonist of Tobias Wolff#146;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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3573.O558O43