$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury / ISBN:9780747574651)
Old School
It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy in his final year, on a scholarship, has learned to fit in with his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself and his background. Class is ever present, but the only acknowledged snobbery is a literary snobbery. These boys' heroes are writers - Fitzgerald, Cummings, Kerouac. They want to be writers themselves, and the school has a tradition whereby once a term big names from the literary world are invited to visit. A contest takes place with the boys admitting a piece of writing and the winner having a private audience with the visitor. When it is announced that Hemingway will be the next to come to the school, competition among the boys is intense, and the morals the school and the boys hold dear - honour, loyalty and friendship - are tested. No one writes more astutely than Wolff about the process by which character is formed, and here he illuminates the irresistible strength, even the violence, of the self-creative urge. This is a novel that, in its power and its beauty, in its precision and its humanity, is at once contemporary and timeless.
Tobias Wolff
Old School
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy in his final year, on a scholarship, has learned to fit in with his ado... More »
Our Story Begins
$42.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
One of the most exquisite storytellers delivers his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with 21 classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. More »
This Boy's Life
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
At just ten years old, Tobias Wolff is reluctantly on the road. His restless, spirited mother is desperate to build a life for them both, but Tobias is struggling with this ever-changing routine. When they finally reach ... More »
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
$27.99 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
An outstanding collection of new and classic stories, from one of America's greatest living short story writers
Our Story Begins combines twenty-one of Tobias Wolff’s classic stories with ten potent new works, spanning t... More »
Our Story Begins
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Tobias Wolff's first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can 'provoke our amazed appreciation' (New York Times Book Review). ... More »
American Fiction 21st Century
