A Separate Peace

As heard on BBC Radio 4

John Knowles

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Simon & Schuster
01 July 2016

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC

An American coming-of-age tale during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war

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.

By: John Knowles
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Re-issue
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm,
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9781471152320
ISBN 10: 1471152324
Series: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 July 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for A Separate Peace: As heard on BBC Radio 4

'A novel that made such a deep impression on me at sixteen that I can still conjure the atmosphere in my fifties: of yearning, infatuation mingled indistinguishably with envy, and remorse' -- Lionel Shriver