- Teenage boys, Psychological fiction, Preparatory schools, Preparatory school students
The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy's Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award--winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel.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.
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Tobias Wolff, Tobias Wolff
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781439566015
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