Full name: A Good School: A Novel

Author: Richard Yates Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Classic, Contemporary, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312420390 0312420390

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. Similar books: Stars and Bars by William Boyd The Truth About Lorin Jones by Alison Lurie Sneaky People by Thomas Berger Nude Men by Amanda Filipacchi Letting Go by Philip Roth Kramer vs. Kramer by Avery Corman The Public Image by Muriel Spark All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen I Want it Now by Kingsley Amis Ritual in the Dark by Colin Wilson The Betsy by Harold Robbins The Hustler by Walter Tevis Deadkidsongs by Toby Litt Aspects of Love by David Garnett Trail of Secrets by Eileen Goudge Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates The Easter Parade by Richard Yates Broken April by Ismail Kadare Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates