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The
2005 Award
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Old School by Tobias Wolff
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| 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… Old School examines the process by which character is formed, and illuminates the irresistible power, even the violence, of the self-creative urge. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.He is the author of This Boy's Life, a memoir and the novella, The Barracks Thief. |
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