A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0435121324
- ISBN 13
- 9780435121327
- Seller
-
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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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Details
- Seller
- Yare Books Limited (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 006230
- Title
- A Separate Peace
- Author
- John Knowles
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0435121324
- ISBN 13
- 9780435121327
- Publisher
- Windmill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾&quo
- X weight
- 11 oz
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...