A Separate Peace - Softcover

Knowles, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743253973 ISBN 13: 9780743253970

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 2003

Synopsis

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.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

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.

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Review:

Aubrey Menen I 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 Review A masterpiece.

The Observer A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.

Warren Miller Mr. Knowles has something to say about youth and war that few contemporary novelists have attempted to say and none has said better.

From the Publisher:

A great book full of local color and character development
This book pits best freinds against each other in a classic settind of the all-boys private school. A class leader is permantly disabled by his best friend who hides his deep resentment for Finny. In a time of war, tempers explode and friendships are shattered. A must read for anyone!

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743253973
• ISBN 13: 9780743253970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208