A Separate Peace
by Knowles, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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south dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing.. Bluish gray cloth, first American edition, laid in is the author's signature on an index card. His first book and the basis for the 1972 movie. Second state jacket with reviews on both front and rear panels, included are two additional jackets both second state or later. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Wayward Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020902
- Title
- A Separate Peace
- Author
- Knowles, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Printing.
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed First Editions; Signed By Author;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
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