A Separate Peace
By John Knowles
(Scribner, Paperback, 9780743253970, 208pp.)
Publication Date: October 7, 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc (September 2006), Audio Cassette (January 2002), Compact Disc (January 2002), Paperback (September 1999), Hardcover (October 1, 1996), Audio Cassette - Abridged (May 1, 1987), Mass Market Paperback (January 1985), Prebound (January 1984), Hardcover (February 1960)
Categories: Classics
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Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.
John Knowles, who died in 2001, was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Aubrey MenenI think it is the best-written, best-designed, and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself.
National ReviewA masterpiece.
The ObserverA model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.
Warren MillerMr. Knowles has something to say about youth and war that few contemporary novelists have attempted to say and none has said better.
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