Product Details
Scribner, September 2003
Trade Paperback, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0743253973
ISBN-13: 9780743253970
Description
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.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles’s crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.
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Browse Inside A Separate PeaceAubrey 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.
Salon, September 28, 2011
...wisdom and taste of our nation's educators. 's editor in chief, Kerry Lauerman, got choked up over John Knowles' "A Separate Peace" as a high-school sophomore, but nowadays he'd prefer to see it jump from a high tree into a fast river. "I ...
Charleston Gazette, September 16, 2011
...didn’t note that another star in the West Virginia literary firmament was also born on this date. John Knowles, who was born on this date in 1926, is best known to high school and college students everywhere as the author of “A Separate ...
MSNBC, September 2, 2011
...oh yeah, murder, is your thing, "The Rule of Four" will be up your Ivy League alley. ‘A Separate Peace’ By John Knowles (Bantam Books) Knowles’ wistful tale centers on the friendship between studious, awkward Gene and daredevil Finny, ...
China Post, December 5, 2009
...2:35 pm TWN, By Lydia Lin, , the coming-of-age classic by award-winning author John Knowles, has earned its place in both the canon of literature and the syllabus of your average high school English class. The story unfolds at a private ...
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Media Matters for America, December 4, 2009
...in Prince William County, Va. (1988) because the book was "rife with profanity and explicit sex." A Separate Peace , John Knowles. Challenged in Vernon-Verona-Sherill, NY School District (1980) as a "filthy, trashy sex novel." ...
Murray Ledger and Times, April 30, 2009
...are often likely to disappoint. This was the case for me several years ago when I reread A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a book I had been assigned as a teenager in a high school English class. I was disappointed the second time around, ...
