Tobias Wolff
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| Original Title: | Old School |
| ISBN: | 0747574650 (ISBN13: 9780747574651) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | North East(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2004), California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (2003), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee (2003) |
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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.Define Epithetical Books Old School
| Title | : | Old School |
| Author | : | Tobias Wolff |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 196 pages |
| Published | : | February 7th 2005 by Bloomsbury (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 10875 Users | 1219 ReviewsEvaluation Epithetical Books Old School
Remarkable book...elite school for young men who compete for chance to have private conference with famous authors among other things. For lovers of literature.Published 2003; Setting US prep school in 1960's; Literature "Greats" include Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand; President Kennedy's era and aura and the very real and beautifully portrayed "growing-up angst" experienced by the school's population as well as their teachers.This is my first book by this author although I recentlyWhat a book! Despite the tranquil title, it's been an engrossing emotional roller coaster, which made me feel dizzy. The setting of 'Old School' (2003) by Tobias Wolff is an elite boarding school in the United States in 196061. The unnamed narrator is one of the students, 'book-drunk boys', obsessed with literature and creative writing: 'one could not live in a world without stories'. The school regularly organizes a competition and the prize is a private audience with a notorious author. The
OLD SCHOOL is written in the form of a fictionalized memoir of a student at an elite, circa 1960s, prep school full of "book-drunk" boys. Through a series of student writing competitions to win the prize of a private audience with a well know author, the reader of this book is treated to a profile of Carl Sandburg, Ayn Rand, and Earnest Hemingway. Along the way we are taught a lesson in how ambition disguised as passion for writing can lead to unfortunate outcomes. There is a hilarious bit of
Remarkable book...elite school for young men who compete for chance to have private conference with famous authors among other things. For lovers of literature.Published 2003; Setting US prep school in 1960's; Literature "Greats" include Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand; President Kennedy's era and aura and the very real and beautifully portrayed "growing-up angst" experienced by the school's population as well as their teachers.This is my first book by this author although I recently
A strong 4.5 only because the ending lost some momentum for me (which may have been intentional since for the first 2/3 of the book, the narrator is reflecting back on his last year of prep school which ends rather suddenly). Definitely a book lovers book...an homage to American literature, to the teachers who are passionate about it and to the early 60s, before the deaths of JFK and Ernest Hemingway and the general upheaval later in the decade. Wolff's writing pulls you right into the
At Donald Hall's house, he talked quite a bit about formalism and style in literary traditions. He told me that a person can't really move into the contemporary unless they have read pre-1800's writing and beyond. In Charles Simic's classes, he taught a more delicate, elegant modern aesthetic. his approach was more arachnid, mysterious, dark and removed. his writing is about the hidden and therefore, he admires any approach used to unleash what one can usually only whisper about. while Billy
@Stephen, thanks a bunch!
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