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

Old School

Tobias Wolff

Paperback | Pages: 196 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 10875 Users | 1219 Reviews

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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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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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WOW... this is a damn fine book. Some amazing writing here... In fact, I think the best way to prove to you folks that this Wolff guy is "a beast," as the kids say these days, is to quote some passages right here."The heat from the fire brought a flush to her face and made her perfume thicker, headier. She turned to Mr. Rice, an English master and a southerner himself, who was tapping his ashes from his pipe into the fireplace. Do you think she'll come tonight? she asked.""Patty was his second

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

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

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

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

A review dedicated to and inspired by my friend Eh!, who reads things backwards.This book is way literary meta. Its so meta that there are prereq reading requirements for an optimal experience. Everyone knows Robert Frost, right? So, Im not putting him on the list. But, I require you to read Atlas Shrugged, The Sun Also Rises, and (if you liked The Sun Also Rises, but not if you hated it) A Farewell to Arms before you read Old School. If you dont care for Hemingway, youll probably not care for

Meredith recommends reading This Boy's Life or In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War, parts 1 and 2 of this author's memoirs, instead of this fiction novel if you've never read Hemingway or Rand. That said, I've never read Hemingway or Rand but I've heard of their reputations, and really enjoyed this.Does anyone remember getting a flier in high school saying you've been so successful that you're chosen to be listed in the Who's Who In American High Schools? I was too naive to recognize a