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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
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- Signed
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Oxford, Mississippi, United States
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About This Item
1960 edition, a later printing (dated 1979). Near fine in NF DU w/publisher's 11.95 price sticker on jacket flap. Signed by the author on first free endpaper at Square Books while visiting his friend Willie Morris in the early 1980s.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Rare Square Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2088
- Title
- A Separate Peace
- Author
- John Knowles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 3
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About the Seller
Rare Square Books
Biblio member since 2018
Oxford, Mississippi
About Rare Square Books
Established in 1979, Square Books is a general independent bookstore located in Oxford, Mississippi. Square Books has long dealt in collectible and signed books. In 2019, on the 40th anniversary of the opening, a new chapter was added with the addition of Rare Square Books located in the original second floor location.
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