Old School

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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'Think Dead Poets' Society crossed with The Catcher in the Rye ... a beautifully crafted all-American coming-of-age tale' Esquire

Product details

• Authors: Tobias Wolff, Wolff Tobias
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.02.2005
• EAN: 9780747576822
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-7682-2
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 177 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Bilingual editions > German/English; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary