Slacks for Ella Funt

I had intended to read this for a while, because I like to read books set in boarding schools. Reading this book me think about Atonement, by Ian McEwan. While it’s a completely different story, it’s about a lot of the same things: narrative truth and the nature of being a writer. I didn’t think it was as effective as Atonement, primarily because the twist ending in Old School is no surprise, unlike Atonement, where the ending felt like a slap in the face. Old School also features “cameo” appearances by other writers—Robert Frost, Ayn Rand, and Hemingway—some flattering and some unflattering.