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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

Tobias Wolff

Paperback | Pages: 196 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 10875 Users | 1219 Reviews

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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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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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So, I want to live in this book. This is a bittersweet book about myth...the myth of being innocent, and the myth of what it's like going to a private school. . . a private, cloistered high school. As a big-time literature nerd aficionado, the school in this novel is every bit as magical as Hogwarts: visits from writers like Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Robert Frost, writing contests to actually get to hang out with them...knowing they'd actually read something you'd WRITTEN. You know, THIS kind 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

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



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

What 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

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