![]() ![]() He aspires to be a writer, and the school he attends is an embodiment of a certain kind of academic fantasy, where non-English masters (teachers are "masters" here) "floated at the fringe of circle, as if warming themselves at a fire," and literature is still believed to hold the key to the soul. ![]() ![]() The unnamed protagonist is a scholarship student who comes from a middle-class family. The book is narrated by a school senior ("sixth former" in prep-school vernacular) at an unnamed elite boarding school in the northeastern United States in 1960–61. Old School is a novel by Tobias Wolff, first published on November 4, 2003, after three portions of the novel had appeared in The New Yorker as short stories. ![]()
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