Tobias Wolff | "Old School"
- Copyright: © 2003 by Tobias Wolff
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.
"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- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
- Pages: 195
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 2004
- This edition published: 2005
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