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Highlights
- Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
- About the Author: 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.
- 208 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
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About the Book
A novel of unrest among 16-year-olds in a boy's school at theopening of WorldWar II.Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"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." --Aubrey Menen "A quietly vital and cleanly written novel that moves, page by page, towards a most interesting target." --Truman Capote "Is he the successor to Salinger for whom we have been waiting so long?" --Encounter "A masterpiece." --National Review "A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written." --The Observer "Mr. Knowles has something to say about youth and war that few contemporary novelists have attempted to say and none has said better." --Warren Miller
About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.42 Inches (H) x 5.42 Inches (W) x .55 Inches (D)
Weight: .44 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Classics
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Paperback
Author: John Knowles
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2016
TCIN: 78142876
UPC: 9780743253970
Item Number (DPCI): 247-23-8164
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.44 pounds
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dandy5 - 1 year ago, Verified purchaser
Bought this for my stepsister who wanted the book with a different cover than she’s seen around. When I saw the listing with this cover I thought it was lucky. It arrived yesterday with a different cover (the one she didn’t like) than it’s advertised as. I don’t have time to return or find a replacement to gift her so I hope she ends up liking it anyway.