A Separate Peace (Paperback)
| Author: John Knowles |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0743253973
ISBN-13: 9780743253970
Sku: 33905950
Publish Date: 9/1/2003
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.5H x 5.5L x 0.5T
Pages:
208
Age Range:
NA
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I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. (from the first line)
| A conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy. *Author: Knowles, John *Publication Date: 2003/10/07 *Number of Pages: 208 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 5.50 *Height: 8.50 |
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At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discover the depths of human nature among themselves, and the evil that even the most innocent is capable of.
At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discover the depths of human nature among themselves, and the evil that even the most innocent is capable of.
Author Bio
John Knowles
John Knowles was the author of nine other novels after A SEPARATE PEACE, his 1959 study of adolescent turmoil, but none of his works ever matched that book's popularity and eminence. Knowles was educated at Exeter and Yale, then worked as a reporter, an editor, and, finally, a teacher of creative writing. He was 75 when he died.
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"A quietly vital and cleanly written novel that moves, page by page, toward a most interesting target." - Truman Capote Book Jacket
"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. As I read the story I had the feeling of climbing a tower and looking at wider and wider prospects of human nature, each bleaker than the last....The characters are real, the tragedy is inevitable, the setting is perfectly chosen. I shall recommend this book to anyone who tells me that the novel is no longer a work of art." - Audrey Menen
"A quietly vital and cleanly written novel that moves, page by page, toward a most interesting target." - Truman Capote Book Jacket
"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. As I read the story I had the feeling of climbing a tower and looking at wider and wider prospects of human nature, each bleaker than the last....The characters are real, the tragedy is inevitable, the setting is perfectly chosen. I shall recommend this book to anyone who tells me that the novel is no longer a work of art." - Audrey Menen
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