A coming of age novel set in an American public school where the boys compete to write a masterpiece worthy of winning an audience with Ernest Hemingway. A voyage of discovery tales place as battle amongst the boys commences.
May 2010 Guest Editor John Boyne on Tobias Wolff...
Whenever I want a quick fix of writerly brilliance, I open Our Story Begins, Wolff’s collected stories. Always surprising, always moving, each story is the work of a master. His novel Old School is a brilliant tale of young aspiring writers in a New England school.
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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.
Old School features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Old School is available in Paperback, Ebook
Old School was written by Tobias Wolff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Old School has 195 pages
£9.89
