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A Good School

Richard Yates

1979
1979
first published
  • 1979Dell PublishingISBN 9780440130000
  • Random House of Canada LtdISBN 9780385293655

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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