PDF Ebook Old School, by Tobias Wolff

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Old School, by Tobias Wolff

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"Ingenious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Achieves a real profundity. "—The Boston Globe"A sharply drawn, acutely felt novel of moral inquiry. . . . Wolff has put his readers in the landscape tracked across by writers as different as J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and, going back, Conrad and Hawthorne." —The Washington Post Book World"The kind of deceptively quiet novel that deserves a second, slow reading. An homage to the power of story to move, to awaken and even to transform." —The Plain Dealer"Gentle, reserved, graceful. . . . Wolff again proves himself to be a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions." —Los Angeles Times

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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.

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Product details

Paperback: 195 pages

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (August 31, 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780375701498

ISBN-13: 978-0375701498

ASIN: 0375701494

Product Dimensions:

5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.1 out of 5 stars

224 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#43,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Loved this book; I had never read anything by Wolff. The story moves somewhat slowly, in part because Wolff takes risky walks off the path from time to time (e.g., unflattering depictions of Rand and Frost, who make walk-on appearances in the book as special guest stars (almost like a literary joke, crashing the party of the actual cast of boys who are awed by literary celebrity but who don't care to really know one another), as well as diversions presented by short stories-within-the-story as outlined by the narrator but as authored by others). Really loved this as a contemplative character study, with its brilliant mix of darks and lights that gives way to a somber but not humorless portrait of an artist who is just beginning to learn to know himself -- and to understand that self-knowledge can't come from the approval of his betters or their reflected view of him.

Mr. Wolf is a magnificent writer. What is not said leaps between the lines and gives added depth to the sensitivities of the characters. The protagonist is everyman wrestling with the problems in his boyhood. The setting is a private school but social classes are mixed within this elect confine. Literature is both the subject and object of their interest and the interplay between the two is quite breath-taking. One cannot but admire the manner in which Tobias Wolf has created such a piercing tale about ordinary boys and extraordinary poetry.

If you’ve never read a story so blindingly brill, deceptively linear and tenderly wrought that you just knew something was lurking beneath the surface but couldn’t quite grasp the image before the last sentence? Here is your huckleberry.This is a reader’s treasury of that particularly 20th century style in which the art is rendered so smoothly, unwrinkled by clutter, that swooning over structure a paragraph removed is common.I’ll read it again. I must. I’ve either been hoodwinked, bedazzled or just plain humbugged. Beautiful.

This was a great introduction to the life of students and teachers in the early 60's at a somewhat pretentious east coast prep school. I guess it is the kind of place well to do folks send their kids for grades 7 -12. It must be somewhat of a memoir although it is considered a novel, it reads so well, it must have been the author's experience. Interesting that schools of this nature actually offer scholarships and recruit nationally. I enjoyed every page. It is on my 16 year old's summer reading list, so I thought I would read a few pages to see what it was all about. Found I could not put it down. It also gave me some insight, however biased, into a few of the great American authors of the 20th century. The conversation with Ayn Rand is amazing!

This novel was fascinating. I'm not sure if it's a memoir. This is the 2nd of many books that I have read or intend to read by the same author. The writer and his work were written about in a national magazine. The reader is invited in to a "sacred" environment. I enjoyed the relaxed pace of the novel. If one thing bothered me, it was that the story goes off into tangential stories, and later jumps back to the topic that was left off. But by then, I had learned to read the author and understood the side trips.

Wolff is a highly skilled crafter of words. His story is a joy to read and the character descriptions are richly assembled. Having said this, I found the book to have major flaws. Or maybe I missed some hints and it’s the characters who are intentionally flawed?You won’t regret reading “Old School.” but I’d be interested to know if you come away with some questions about its odd plot turns.

Okay, I liked the book but my curiosity about the cover photo is not satisfied since I still don't know if Wolff himself is one of the boys pictured in the photo? Since he submitted the photo, I am thinking possibly yes.... AND, could he be the boy on the spine of the book? That frustration aside, I bought this book for a couple of reasons: mainly because I really loved THIS BOY'S LIFE and hoped to be as entertained in this book, but also because I am a book-lover and always wished I had attended a prep school, so the setting appealed to me. Call it nostalgia for something I never had. This book is essentially a long short story with a couple of laugh-out-loud moments which are always greatly appreciated. But I couldn't get past the fact that I kept wondering about Wolff's life, the SALON interview notwithstanding. I am curious as to why he is so evasive about the facts of his life beyond the last page of THIS BOY'S LIFE where he seemed to be so brutally no-holds-barred honest and forthright. Did he graduate from Hill School, or did he leave just prior to graduation? The book mentions a father a few times, even rather benignly, but states that his mother was dead at the time of the writing which I believe was not true; so, what is autobiographical and what is not? I couldn't get beyond those curiousities as I read the book.I laughed out loud at Wolff's Ayn Rand diatribe. I read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in college, too, and my father almost came undone, thought I had turned into a Commie or something, and was really very upset. To me at the age of 18 they were just books. I liked them well enough, but I also loved other authors. In this book I think Wolff introduces enough variance in the books and authors he discusses that we are left to find our own favorites.Okay, I skimmed through all 12 pages of reader reviews here, hoping to find one written by someone who went to school, Hill School, with Wolff so we could get some straight answers, but I didn't see anything.... It's been a lot of years, but maybe he'll open up all the way one of these days and satisfy a lot of curious minds by telling the rest of his story. Directly. Not fictionalized.Good book. I liked THIS BOY'S LIFE better. Not to mention his brother's book DUKE OF DECEPTION which I also loved.PS: I was thrilled to hear directly from Tobias Wolff today, February 20, 2009, and he says the photo on the cover of the book was taken at his school a couple of years prior to his arrival, so he is not in the picture. I'm still mesmerized by the boys in the photo, but now I can stop speculating on which one might be the real Tobias Wolff.

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