Old School
By: Tobias Wolff
3.84
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy…
Want to Read $ 11.99"a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messengers struggle toward us, killing one another along the way; and when a few survivors break through to our attention they are received as blandly as waiters bringing more coffee."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
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1. So Long, See You Tomorrow
By: William Maxwell
3.91
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- coming of age
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"I don't know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
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- american
- fiction
3. The Graduate (The Graduate, #1)
By: Charles Webb
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house,… read more
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- coming of age
- classics
- fiction
- american
4. The Braindead Megaphone
By: George Saunders
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official Genius--a trade… read more
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- literature
- american
5. Cove
By: Cynan Jones
4.02
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
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6. Tender
By: Belinda McKeon
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about longing, intimacy and obsession from the award-winning author of Solace. When… read more
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7. Spring
By: David Szalay
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author David Szalay, named one of The Daily Telegraph's twenty best … read more
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8. Super-Cannes
By: J.G. Ballard
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself,… read more
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9. The Wind Is My Mother
By: Bear Heart , Molly Larkin
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how tra… read more
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10. Reasons to Live
By: Amy Hempel
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
It is always "earthquake weather" in Amy Hempel's California, a landscape where everything can chan… read more
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11. Hurry Down Sunshine: A Memoir
By: Michael Greenberg
3.92
Format: 32 pages,
Hurry Down Sunshinetells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael… read more
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12. Hogere machten
By: Joost de Vries
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
De jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw. James Welmoed ontmoet Elizabeth van Elzenburg. Hij is een socia… read more
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13. Old School
By: Tobias Wolff
3.84
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Tobias Wolff's Old School book and Tobias Wolff's Old School
- boarding school
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- school
- literature
- coming of age
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messen…"-Tobias Wolff, Old School
14. The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
By: Richard Russo
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author … read more
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15. The Guest Lecture
By: Martin Riker
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more
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- literature
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16. Apartment
By: Teddy Wayne
3.78
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com’s “Best Books of… read more
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"Though I suppose each experience like this, just like everyone's loneliness, feels uniquely uncategorizable—the particular contours of another person's borders that collide with your own before leavi…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
"Until that point, I'd assumed that nearly everyone bore a certain amount of loneliness within them, it was just the human condition of being trapped inside one mind and body for a lifetime, so that w…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
17. Road Home
By: Rex Ogle
4.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle’s memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and … read more
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18. There's Going to Be Trouble
By: Jen Silverman
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dang… read more
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19. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
20. United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.
By: Dinesh D'Souza
4.16
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal BestsellerFor those who w… read more
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21. The End of Nightwork
By: Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his… read more
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