It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school. The school is a place of privilege that yet places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy in his final year at the school, on a scholarship has,during his time there, 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 getting to have 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 pride themselves on - 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.
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September 2004 : Library Binding
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January 2004 : Hardback
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November 2003 : Hardback
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2003 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
February 2005 : Paperback
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February 2005 : Paperback
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August 2004 : Paperback
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2004 : Paperback
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2003 : Paperback
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December 2003 : Audio Cassette
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September 2004 : Turtleback
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August 2004 : Kindle edition
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