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Old School

Tobias Wolff

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English
Vintage Books
15 October 2004
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.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 192mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   164g
ISBN:   9780375701498
ISBN 10:   0375701494
Series:   Vintage Contemporaries
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Reviews for Old School

Ingenious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Achieves a real profundity. -- The Boston Globe <br> 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 <br> 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 <p> 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<br>


  • Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2004
  • Winner of Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults.

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