Tell a friend about this book...
Friend's Email:
Subject: I have found a book that I think you would enjoy
Member $avings: $29,607,716.31
|
Books Available: 5,114,056
|
Members Online: 1,199
Your Source for Swapping & Buying Books Online!
How To Swap Books
Sign Up
Search 
Kiosk
All Books
PBS Market (New Books)
Book Browser
Advanced Search
Books Posted Today
Member Book Reviews
Award Winning Books
NYT Best Sellers
Most Traveled Copies
Club Wish List
Login
Community
Member Directory
Discussion Forums
Book Lists
Blog
Donations
Live Chat
Box-O-Books
Maps
The Eclectic Pen
Fun Stuff
Top 100
Pulse of PBS
Spread The Word
Photo Gallery
Recipes
Club Tag Cloud
Member Testimonials
Help Center
Kiosk
Need Help?
Search - Old School (Vintage Contemporaries)
|
|
Old School - Vintage Contemporaries Author: 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 mu... more »
|
Similar books to this author and title:
Members who requested this book also requested:
Please Log in to Rate these Book Reviews
Nice quick book. This is on the National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" list of classics, and I have to say it's been one of the most enjoyable ones I've read from that list so far.
The protagonist in this story takes on many roles,one is chameleon-like,one the humble student and observer, and the last one I won't spoil but it isn't necessarily a letdown. Tobias Wolff is an excellent writer who exhibits true depth and contrary values. He has earned his way onto my favorite lists,along with Joyce Carol Oates,Margaret Atwood, J.M Coetzze ,Saul Bellow among many others!! Highly Recommended!
Kristin M. (MissKristin66) - Westminster, VT reviewed Old School (Vintage Contemporaries) on + 75 more book reviews
Though the writing was excellent, I found the characters poorly developed and the plot boring.
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( W ) >> Wolff, Tobias