Old School - Tobias Wolff
KORTE INHOUD
It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy, in his final year and on a scholarship, has learned to fit in with his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself and his background. Class is ever present, but the only acknowledged snobbery is a literary snobbery. These boys' heroes are writers - Fitzgerald, cummings, Kerouac. They want to be writers themselves, and the school has a tradition whereby once a term big names from the literary world are invited to visit. A contest takes place with the boys submitting a piece of writing and the winner having a private audience with the visitor. When it is announced that Hemingway will be the next to come to the school, competition among the boys is intense, and the morals the school and the boys hold dear - honour, loyalty and friendship - become severely tested. No one writes more astutely than Wolff about the process by which character is f...
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2004Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC208 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0747569487ISBN-13: 9780747569480Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Name and address on endpaper. [Auteur: Wolff, Tobias] [Pagina's: 195] [Uitgever: London, Bloomsbury] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Old School]
