Old School
by:
Tobias Wolff (author)
At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the literary world visits and a contest takes place. The boys have to submit a piece of writing and the winner receives...
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At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the literary world visits and a contest takes place. The boys have to submit a piece of writing and the winner receives a private audience with the visitor. But then it is announced that Hemingway, the boys' hero, is coming to the school. The competition intensifies, and the morals the school and the boys pride themselves on - honour, loyalty and friendship - are crumbling under the strain. Only time will tell who will win and what it will cost them.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747574651 (0747574650)
Publish date: February 7th 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 195
Edition language: English
Found the book thanks to an old Harriet Gilbert's podcast. Isn't she great? I've found so many books from her BBC shows, either A Good Read or World Book Club. Love her voice and how she digs up interesting points from a book, writer or her guests. She always managed to bring up something I've not n...
FIVE STARS!!!!Found the book thanks to an old Harriet Gilbert's podcast. Isn't she great? I've found so many books from her BBC shows, either A Good Read or World Book Club. Love her voice and how she digs up interesting points from a book, writer or her guests. She always managed to bring up someth...
Ever since I read This Boy's Life I was dying to know what had happened to Jack/Toby, more than just the wrap up we got at the end of the book, and I also wanted to read more of Tobias Wolff. And although Old School is described as a novel, not a memoir, I can still hear the same voice of Jack/Toby ...
Want to read something funny and literate? Read this memoir.There are few books that provide this much hilarity, wisdom and grace.Old School, though categorized as a novel, is a thinly veiled memoir of Tobias Wolff’s own experience as a scholarship boy in an elite prep school. The action largely cen...
A book about writing and writers for writers. Anyone who writes or even contemplated the idea of being a writer will identify with the protagonist of this brief but moving novel. The unnamed narrator is a not-so-privileged boy in a private and privileged boys' school. He attempts to find his identit...