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Jul 29, 2014 · Richard Yates. Follow. A Good School: A Novel Kindle Edition. by Richard Yates (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.1 187 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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Jan 1, 1978 · Instantly acclaimed on its first publication, peopled with some of Richard Yates's most memorable characters, this tender, spare masterpiece is a haunting meditation on the twilight of youth, and an unforgettable description of the impact of war on the lives of an innocent generation.
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Dec 7, 2001 · 12/07/2001. Book Details. Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school.
Jan 15, 2010 · 01/15/2010. Book Details. 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.
Dec 7, 2001 · A Good School. Richard Yates. Random House, Feb 15, 2011 - Fiction - 192 pages. William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher...
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 ...
Oct 1, 1999 · A Good School is a short ensemble novel, charting the last days of a second-rate boarding school, Dorset Academy, and set during the same year as Yates’s own graduation from the Avon School, 1944. The epigraph is from the author’s favorite writer, Fitzgerald, his famous “Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll ...
