Results for "Old School" in Genre Fiction

The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy’s Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel. Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to...

A Kirkus Editor’s Pick A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Cowboys & Indians | Brit + Co | Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2025 “With amazing dexterity, Aaron John Curtis’s moving debut novel, Old School Indian, combines raucous humor with respect for ancestral traditions.”...

Five short stories about bullying, school camaraderie, and about learning how to relate to others as an only child.

This book was written in a funny manner to not only touch upon some old-school ways, but to also make us laugh, cry, and think about how some of the things we do impact kids, family, friends, and neighbors, society in general. Some stuff is made up and some stuff is just based upon what I have seen over the years. This book doesn't target any race because all races can be ghetto. For "ghetto" is not about colors, black, white, or pink; but about how you act, how you live, and how you think.

It's a different kind of world now, full of quick hits and idle hands. Long forgotten are the times when life was simple and pure - well, until now. Take a rowdy group of old timers and throw in an apocalypse, and you have the makings for quite an adventure, when they are forced to rescue their grandchildren from the world as we know it and teach them the Old Skool way of life to survive.