A Separate Peace Hardcover - 1996
by John Knowles
John Knowles' beloved classic has been a bestseller for more than 30 years and is one of the most moving and accurate novels about the trials and confusions of adolescence ever written. Set at an elite boarding school for boys during World War II, A Separate Peace is the story of friendship and treachery, and how a tragic accident involving two young men forever tarnishes their innocence.
About this book
Knowles drew on his own experiences at a New England boarding school in order to write this haunting story about the friendship between Gene and Finny. Effectively polar opposites and yet fiercely devoted to each other, Gene and Finny develop a rivalry that sustains each of them. Gene especially tries to emulate Finny's positive qualities to make himself better. But their friendship takes a dark turn as a result of a rash decision that Gene makes while the two are perched on a tree branch. The fallout and ensuing tragedy haunt Gene for the rest of his life. A Separate Peace is a stirring meditation on adolescence, masculinity, guilt, and friendship.
Knowles's classic is an uneasy coming-of-age, set at a boys' boarding school among the desperately carefree 16-year-olds of 1942: too young, still, to be drafted into the war outside; too old to evade the responsibilities and the guilt that follows from the breaking of their fraught and fragile private bonds.
First Edition Identification
Secker & Warburg published the First UK Edition, First Printing hardcover in London, 1959. The Macmillan Company published the First US Edition, First Printing hardcover in New York, 1960.
Details
- Title A Separate Peace
- Author John Knowles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Classic
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, NY
- Date 1996-10-01
- ISBN 9780684833668 / 0684833662
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 2.03 cm)
- Reading level 1030
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: New Hampshire
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Death, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96025844
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/27/2014, Page 23
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