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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)

Old School Paperback | Pages: 196 pages

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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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Title	:	Old School
Author	:	Tobias Wolff
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 196 pages
Published	:	February 7th 2005 by Bloomsbury (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

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i read this book on the advice of nick hornby after reading a collection of articles he wrote for the mcsweeney's magazine "the believer" which had been compiled into book form. i pretty much hated the nick hornby articles (for their cutesy, self-satisfied tone, i think, and also for the way he kept faux-dissing the believer as an overly fey literary mag and therefore underscoring himself as a salt-of-the-earth regular type of guy; basically the whole book is packed with obvious false modesty

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 Wolffs own experience as a scholarship boy in an elite prep school. The action largely centers on the boys writing competitions. Three times a year, a famous author would visit the school and choose one boys writing as the best. As a reward, that boy earned a private audience with 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

At first this seems to be 'just' a straightforward, well-written and enjoyable memoir but then you notice that the author has woven in several themes and motifs, in very subtle way. Truth, honesty, loyalty, self knowledge are touched upon in each of the chapters as the story itself continues. There is the tension about the narrators Jewishness, and class difference that stirrs underneath the surface. The novel is about writing and writers as well, discussing and portraying Ayn Rand, Hemingway,

the prodigal paragraphthis book had one of the best final paragraphs i've ever read. ever since i finished the book a few months ago, i am oftentimes reminded of it:"Arch stopped and looked down the garden to where the headmaster stood by the drinks table with another master. The headmaster said, Late for his own funeral! and everyone laughed, then he put his glass down and came toward Arch with both hands outstretched. Though the headmaster was the younger man, and much shorter, and though Arch

Hot damn. I do realize this was on my 'currently-reading' shelf for one long stretch of time, but I must confess, I had only done a cursory read of a few pages.Well, last night, I visited the land of IKEA (dreadful place that I rarely venture to) and bought myself a reading lamp. Wanting to try out my latest device, I picked up this book and began to read. This was at Midnight (I'm a bit of a night owl). Well, I got so engrossed in this book that I read the entire thing! Finished around 4 in the