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02232cam a2200457Ia 4500 001 2B6ABCFE2B0811DE986A0F08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20211216010143 008 040914r20042003nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780375701498 020 $a 0375701494 035 $a (OCoLC)56506238 040 $a XCX $c XCX $d SILO $d BAKER $d RMC $d NLGGC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d KAAUA $d IOJ $d SILO 043 $a n-usn-- 050 00 $a PS3573.O558 $b O43 2003 084 $a 18.06 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Wolff, Tobias, $d 1945- 245 1 $a Old school : $b a novel / $c Tobias Wolff. 250 $a 1st Vintage Comtemporaries ed. 260 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, $c 2004, c2003. 300 $a 195 p. ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a 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. 586 $a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, 2004. 650 0 $a Preparatory school students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Preparatory schools $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Creative writing $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Teenage boys $v Fiction. 651 0 $a New England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Authors $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcsh 941 $a 8 952 $l RNPC397 $d 20230805011801.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201014748.0 952 $l YQPB532 $d 20220106011002.0 952 $l BWPD851 $d 20210427021126.0 952 $l DRPC413 $d 20180714022301.0 952 $l JLPF081 $d 20150213093541.0 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l YDPC572 $d 20100503170905.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B6ABCFE2B0811DE986A0F08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOJInitiate Another SILO Locator Search