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 and 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 submitting 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 - become severely 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.
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The author of three collections of stories, Tobias Wolff lives with his family near Stanford University, where he is the director of the creative writing program.
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Condición: Muy bueno. : En 1960, en Estados Unidos, en una prestigiosa escuela pública para chicos, un joven becado en su último año ha aprendido a encajar con su tribu adoptiva mientras oculta lo más posible sobre sí mismo y sus orígenes. La clase está siempre presente, pero el único esnobismo reconocido es el esnobismo literario. Los héroes de estos chicos son escritores: Fitzgerald, Cummings, Kerouac. Quieren ser escritores ellos mismos, y la escuela tiene una tradición por la cual una vez al trimestre se invita a grandes nombres del mundo literario a visitarla. Se realiza un concurso en el que los chicos presentan un escrito, y el ganador tiene una audiencia privada con el visitante. Cuando se anuncia que Hemingway será el próximo en venir a la escuela, la competencia entre los chicos es intensa, y la moral que la escuela y los chicos aprecian - honor, lealtad y amistad - se pone a prueba severamente. Nadie escribe con más astucia que Wolff sobre el proceso por el cual se forma el carácter, y aquí ilumina la fuerza irresistible, incluso la violencia, del impulso auto-creativo. Esta es una novela que, en su poder y su belleza, en su precisión y su humanidad, es a la vez contemporánea e intemporal. EAN: 9780747569480 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Old School Autor: Tobias Wolff Editorial: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 195 Formato: tapa dura. Nº de ref. del artículo: Happ-2026-01-21-4454ee17
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