TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff,Tobias
TI  - Old school: a novel 
SN  - 0375701494
PY  - 2004///, c2003
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - Preparatory school students
KW  - Preparatory schools
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - New England
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted. The school's mystique is rooted in Literature, and for many boys this becomes an obsession, editing the review and competing for the attention of visiting writers whose fame helps to perpetuate the tradition. Robert Frost, soon to appear at JFK's inauguration, is far less controversial than the next visitor, Ayn Rand. But the final guest is one whose blessing a young writer would do almost anything to gain
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