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The character of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at instances devastatingly—observed first book is just a child at an elite prep-school in 1960. He's an outsider who has learned to imitate the irresponsible types of his more fortunate friends. Like most of them, he desires significantly more than anything on the planet to be always a writer. But to achieve that he must first learn how to tell the reality about agency of thought may be the college literary contest, whose winner is likely to be granted an audience most abundant in renowned author of his period.