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A Good School
A Good School: A Novel | Richard Yates
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Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the stories of William Grove, the quiet boy who becomes an editor of the school newspaper; Jack Draper, a crippled chemistry teacher; and Edith Stone, the schoolmaster's young daughter, who falls in love with most celebrated boy in the class of 1943.
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Yates doesn't throw you any curveballs with this book - A Good School delivers everything you'd expect from his writing: loneliness, compromise and resignation, sorrow - but Yates is such a talented writer that his voice never feels stale to me. This book is brief and bitter, but not without hope.

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A Good School: A Novel | Richard Yates
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If youre a fan of prep school books, as I am, check this one out. Private lives of prep boys and disillusioned profs without sentimentality or melodrama against the backdrop of the beginning of WWII. Charming story with dark undertones.