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A Separate Peace
by Knowles, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0025648403
- ISBN 13
- 9780025648401
- Seller
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Southampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Macmillan. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, Third Printing (1961). Published by Macmillan, 1959. Octavo. Blue boards stamped in dark blue. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light spotting to page ends. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edgewear, small tears and spotting. A nice copy of this classic American novel by John Knowles. 186 pages. ISBN: 0025648403. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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
- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152957
- Title
- A Separate Peace
- Author
- Knowles, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0025648403
- ISBN 13
- 9780025648401
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- February 1, 1960
- Keywords
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Octavo
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