A Good School by Richard Yates
Set in a New England private boarding school in the years surrounding World War II, the novel follows a cohort of boys and the teachers who shape them, tracing how adolescent ambitions, social snobbery and sexual confusion collide with the institution’s petty hypocrisies. Told with unsentimental wit and a keen eye for disappointment, it exposes both the failings of the adults in charge and the lasting effects those formative years have on the characters’ lives, offering a bleakly comic critique of American middle-class aspirations and the myth of upward mobility.
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- Published
- 1978
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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