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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 ficiton 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.… (más)
A good school by Richard Yates is another novel in the long tradition of "public school writing". The introduction by the author seems a bit tongue-in-cheek, confusing me as whether to see this as autobiographical or pure fiction. I felt the first part of the book more enticing than the later part. ( )
Several loosely-related short stories braided into a short novel. I enjoyed, but for me personally it was a little too sexually explicit (the author seems to fixate on pubic hair). ( )
I liked this book much less than others I have read written by Richard Yates. I felt there was too much information, not enough clarity, and so very much bad behavior. It is hard to believe that all of these incidents are based on truth, and that there were no intercessions. I rated it as highly as I did because I learned from the parts that may have been based on real experiences. ( )
This is the first novel I’ve read by Richard Yates, although Revolutionary Road has been on my TBR list ever since the film (which I haven’t actually seen) came out. I wasn’t sure what to expect beyond a vague sense of classic American sensibilities being placed under the microscope. In a sense, this semi-autobiographical novel was an easy way in, playing to my interest in school stories, as it follows the young William Grove through two years at the isolated Dorset Academy in Connecticut. Around Grove’s story swirls those of the other boys and the masters at this odd, struggling school; while Pearl Harbour looms on the horizon, and war threatens to change the Dorset boys forever...
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Schuif je stoel tot vlak bij de rand van de afgrond en ik zal je een verhaal vertellen F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Můj otec zamlada studoval zpěv v severní části státu New York, chtěl se stát koncertním tenorem.
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Nakonec zjistíš, že na světě není většího potěšení než rozesmát nějaké děvče. Mimo sexu samotného, ovšem. (s. 91)
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Asi budu svému otci vždy klást takové otázky ve skrytu svého srdce, a budu usilovat o jeho lásku tak, jak jsem o ni nedokázal usilovat v době, kdy na tom záleželo; ale to - jak naznačoval, když ho přemlouvali, aby zazpíval "Danny Boy", a on o krok ustoupil a udělal rukou malé zamítavé gesto, přičemž se současně pousmál i zamračil - to už je celé minulost.
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. 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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