Editions

A Good School

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099518587

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 138g

  • RRP: £8.99

A Good School

William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher whose wife is cheating on him with one of his colleagues. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. Their stories twine together in the claustrophobic confines of the small community of Dorset Academy. And them comes Pearl Harbor and suddenly they are faced with larger issues than the day-to-day problems and politics of school life.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099518587

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 138g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Yates is such a magnificent writer

    The Times

  • Bittersweet, elegiac, this is Richard Yates's gentlest book

    Boston Review

  • A first-class work of imagination

    New York Times

  • In an age embarrassed by story-telling... Yates tell stories we believe

    New Republic

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About the Author

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 his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

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