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A Separate Peace - by John Knowles (Paperback)

A Separate Peace - by  John Knowles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A novel of unrest among 16-year-olds in a boy's school at theopening of WorldWar II.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's <i>The Great American Read.</i></b> <p/><b>An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, <i> A Separate Peace </i>is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.</b> <p/>Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, <i>A Separate Peace </i>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>National Review</i> A masterpiece.<br><br><i>The Observer</i> A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.<br><br><i>Warren Miller</i> Mr. Knowles has something to say about youth and war that few contemporary novelists have attempted to say and none has said better.<br><br>Aubrey 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.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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.

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