A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
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.
John Knowles (1926-2001) attended Yale University and Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. A Separate Peace, his first novel, was published in 1959 and made into a film in 1972. Showtime remade it as a television movie again in 2004. He published seven novels, a travel book, and a collection of short tales. He received the National Institute of Arts and Letters' William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743253970 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743253973 |
| Title | A Separate Peace |
| Author | John Knowles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2003-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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