Old School
Tobias Wolff
Set in 1950s New England, about an older teenager at an American
high school and his attempt to win a school short story
competition in order to meet his literary hero, Ernest Hemingway.
To do this, he plagiarises a story by a girl from a school in the
area, certain that his crime won't be discovered. The book starts
rather slowly and Andrew found it a bit hard to relate to the
literary intensity of the narrator and his schoolmates, a far cry
from his Essex school of the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Andrew 23/5/04
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