The Old Boys
{{Short description|1964 comic novel by William Trevor}}
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| name = The Old Boys
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| image = File:TheOldBoys.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = William Trevor
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| country = Ireland
| language = English
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| genre = Novel
| publisher = Bodley Head
| release_date = 1964
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| media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
| pages = 191 pp.
| isbn = 014002428X
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| preceded_by = A Standard of Behaviour
| followed_by = The Boarding House
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The Old Boys is a 1964 comic novel written by Anglo-Irish author William Trevor.
Plot summary
The story concerns a group of elderly men on the board of a society for the old boys of an unnamed English public school and the power politics and old rivalries that come into play during the election of a new president for the Old Boys Association. The old boys themselves have developed various ways of coping with retirement and loneliness and life's disappointments but they all take a keen interest in their old school, none more so than Jaraby, who desires and expects to be elected as the new president, but is nervous about the possibility of being opposed by Nox, his former fag. {{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/william-trevor/old-boys-2/|title=THE OLD BOYS by William Trevor {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}}
Reviews
- The New York Times{{Cite web |last=Poore |first=Charles |date=March 19, 1964 |title=The Private Waterloos of English Playing-Field Graduates |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/06/specials/trevor-old.html?mcubz=1 |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=The New York Times}}
- The New Yorker{{Cite magazine |last=Overbey |first=Erin |author-link=Erin Overbey |date=2010-06-03 |title=Eighty-Five from the Archive: William Trevor |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/eighty-five-from-the-archive-william-trevor |magazine=The New Yorker |issn=0028-792X |access-date=2017-09-20}}
- The Telegraph{{Cite news |last=Bradbury |first=Lorna |date=2009-08-29 |title=William Trevor |language=en-GB |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6105855/William-Trevor.html |access-date=2017-09-20 |issn=0307-1235}}
References
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Category:Works by William Trevor
Category:British comedy novels
Category:The Bodley Head books
Category:Hawthornden Prize–winning works
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