A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1959. Based on his earlier short story “Phineas”, published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles’s first published novel and became his best-known novel. to work. Set against the backdrop of World War II, A Separate Peace explores morality, patriotism, and the loss of innocence through its narrator, Gene.
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Summary
Set in a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and illuminating parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely and introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, joking, and reckless athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
Review
An American classic and best-seller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its depiction of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
A bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles’ crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.
About The Author
John Knowles (1926–2001) 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. His books include Separate Peace, Peace Breaks Out, and The Paragon.
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