num_pages: 144
description: Contains two plays for television about the vicissitudes of public schools, together with a 20,000 word introduction by the author, who has also written "Brazzaville Beach", "A Good Man in Africa", "An Ice-Cream War", "Stars and Bars", "The New Confessions" and "On the Yankee Station".
language: English
title: School Ties
titlecomplete: School Ties
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 75
publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade