Old School (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Kelly M’s request to change the title of Old School Sunday, November 1 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Kelly M’s request to combine 12 books, including Old School, Tuesday, October 27 2009.

Kelly M changed the title of Old School Monday, October 26 2009.

Kelly M submitted a request to combine 12 books, including Old School, Monday, October 26 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Old School Monday, August 3 2009.

• The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Old School Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Tobias Wolff:

Peiyu W edited the quotations of Old School Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Memory is a dream to begin with, and what I had was a dream of memory, not to be put to the test”

Shelfari edited the contributors of Old School Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a contributor: Tobias Wolff: (Primary Author)