A school writing competition tests the limits of ambition and honesty.
Tobias Wolff makes the desire to become a writer inseparable from the temptation to become someone else. Choose this for a compact novel about education, performance and self-invention. Its subject is especially appealing when you want a book about literature that also asks an uncomfortable question about the person doing the reading.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
