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A Good School is a novel by American writer Richard Yates first published in 1978. It is set at a fictional Connecticut prep school in the early 1940s and relates the coming of age of a group of mainly WASP boys who at the same time prepare themselves if half-heartedly, to go to war immediately after graduation.
- Richard Yates
- Novel
- 1978
- 178 (Hardback first edition)
3.66. 2,142 ratings201 reviews. 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.
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- Paperback
- Richard Yates
Dec 7, 2001 · Richard Yates' "A Good School" is a good book. It takes you through the last days of a declining prep school in the Northeast during World War II. It is less a book about one person than about the chorus of people who make up the community -- from the Coach to the French teacher to the foreign student to the daughter of the Headmaster to the ...
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- 1978
- Richard Yates
- Richard Yates
Jan 1, 1978 · Set in a small boarding school on the eve of America's entry into World War Two, A Good School tells the story of William Grove, the nervous teenager trying to fit in; the betrayed alcoholic, Jack Draper; and Edith Stone, the teacher's daughter, who falls in love with the most popular boy in school.
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- Hardcover
- Richard Yates
Set in a small boarding school on the eve of America's entry into World War Two, A GOOD SCHOOL tells the story of William Grove, the nervous teenager trying to fit in; the betrayed alcoholic,...
Dec 7, 2001 · A Good School. A Novel. Author: Richard Yates. About This Book. 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... Page Count. 192. Genre. Literary Fiction. On Sale. 12/07/2001. Book Details.
Jan 15, 2010 · A Good School. A Novel. Author: Richard Yates, read by Kristoffer Tabori. About This Book. 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... Genre. Literary Fiction. On Sale. 01/15/2010. Book Details.