The Old Boys
$23.75
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2015
Summary
The old boys know what matters - power, revenge, love and the failure of love.
A group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts in the election of the President of the Old Boys Association. Jaraby expects to get the job, but he reckons without the bitterness of Nox, who still remembers the humiliations of his school years. And when Jaraby’s son gets into trouble with the law, Nox has the perfect stick with which to beat him.
Their powers may be failing but the old boys po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241969250 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241969255 |
| Author: | William Trevor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 50th |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 127g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 11mm |
| Series: | William Trevor Backlist Novels |
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About The Author
William Trevor
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned writer of short stories, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime’s literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
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