Authors: John Knowles
ISBN-13: 9780743253970, ISBN-10: 0743253973
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
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 model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.