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'At fifteen, Terry Flynne had the face of an angel and the body of a perfect athlete ...'
Set in a small boarding school on the eve of America's entry into World War Two, A Good School tells the stories 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 the school. Instantly acclaimed on its first publication in 1978, 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. 'Bittersweet, elegiac, this is Richard Yates's gentlest book' Boston Review 'A first-class work of imagination' New York Times 'Yates is an expert ...acute and poignant' Time 'In an age embarrassed by story-telling ...Yates tells stories we believe' New Republic 'A Good School demonstrates masterly touches' Sunday Herald
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About Richard Yates Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953, and Revolutionary Road, his first novel, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He died in 1992.
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