Old School

Resumen del libro

It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A boy in his final year of 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Tobias Wolffx{0026}lt;/B (1945) es un escritor estadounidense conocido por sus relatos breves, por sus obras autobiográficas y por ser una figura fundamental del realismo norteamericano de las últimas décadas. Autor de x{0026}lt;I Vida de este chicox{0026}lt;/I (adaptada al cine con gran éxito, Ganadora del Premio Los Angeles Times a la mejor biografía, finalista del Premio National Book Critics Circle y elegido por x{0026}lt;I The New York Times x{0026}lt;/I y porx{0026}lt;I Babeliax{0026}lt;/I como uno de los libros del año) y de x{0026}lt;I Aquí empieza nuestra historia x{0026}lt;/I (colección por la que fue galardonado con el Story Prize), Wolff es además ganador del Premio Pen/Faulkner, del Premio Rea de Relato y del Premio O. Henry en tres ocasiones. En Alfaguara también ha publicado x{0026}lt;I De regreso al mundox{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Ladrón de cuartelesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I En el ejército del faraónx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I La noche en cuestiónx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Vieja escuela x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I Cazadores en la nievex{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P