Old School
 

Old School (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff's Old School is at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. Set in a New England prep school in the early 1960s, the novel imagines a final, pastoral moment before the explosion of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the suicide of Ernest Hemingway.
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Kate G
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Well written if a little "look at me, I'm a writer!"

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b.schock
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I enjoy the "coming of age" and the "how my life dramatically changed because of one decision" novels. "Old School" is both of these. Wolff's writing style was understated and steady. The plot is adequate but ultimately forgettable. It doesn't stay with me like scenes from Knowles' "The Separate Peace." It seems that some of the alleged tension in the story is derived from one of my least favorite ploys, an adult with knowledge failing to communicate it to a child. The headmaster and...

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