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A School For Fools Puddly Award for Memoir (2001) and the man Rachel hasBy turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two unreliable the young man who is a student at the school for fools and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are