Question

Soon after recovering from shattering his leg falling from a tree, a character in this novel breaks it again falling down a set of stairs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this coming-of-age novel in which a group of boys at a New Hampshire school hurl medicine balls at each other in the game of blitzball.
ANSWER: A Separate Peace
[10m] John Knowles based the blitzball player Brinker on this author. During a debate, William Buckley threatened to “sock” this author of Myra Breckinridge “in the god damn face.”
ANSWER: Gore Vidal [or Eugene Luther Gore Vidal; or Eugene Louis Vidal]
[10e] Boarding school students develop the absurdly elaborate game Eschaton to simulate nuclear warfare in Infinite Jest, a novel by this postmodern author who wrote the essay collection Consider the Lobster.
ANSWER: David Foster Wallace [or DFW]
<Literature - American Literature>

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y417.50100%50%25%
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y420.00100%75%25%

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BardNYU A001010
PrincetonColumbia B0101020
Columbia CNYU B001010
YaleLehigh A10101030