Old School
by Tobias Wolff
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375401466
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401466
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 2003. Quarter-bound in gray with beige paper boards and copper lettering to spine. First Edition (stated) inscribed by author on title page. Unclipped ($22.00) jacket shows minimal shelf wear. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novella (The Barracks Thief), this is the author's first novel. Ayn Rand and Robert Frost are but a few of the visitors to a New England prep school that shape the life of the protagonist "narrator". 6x9.25 in. 195 pg.
Synopsis
Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 257
- Title
- Old School
- Author
- Tobias Wolff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0375401466
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401466
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 195
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Prep school, literature
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