Old School
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2004
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-7195-7 (ISBN)
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978-0-7475-7195-7 (ISBN)
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Explores the bewildering process through which the sometimes violent creative urge moulds character and threatens to rupture pre-existing order.
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, 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 formed, and here he illuminates the irresistible strength, even the violence, of the self-creative urge.
This is a novel that, in its power and its beauty, in its precision and its humanity, is at once contemporary and timeless.
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, 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 formed, and here he illuminates the irresistible strength, even the violence, of the self-creative urge.
This is a novel that, in its power and its beauty, in its precision and its humanity, is at once contemporary and timeless.
The author of three collections of stories, Tobias Wolff lives with his family near Stanford University, where he is the director of the creative writing program.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.1.2004 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Einbandart | Englisch Broschur |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7475-7195-3 / 0747571953 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7475-7195-7 / 9780747571957 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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