A Separate Peace

John Knowles

ISBN 10: 0613705300 ISBN 13: 9780613705301

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2003

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence.

"I think it is the best-written, best-designed and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself." -- Aubrey Menen

"A quietly vital and cleanly written novel that moves, page by page, towards a most interesting target." -- Truman Capote

"Is he the successor to Salinger for whom we have been waiting so long? -- Encounter.

"A masterpiece." -- National Review.

From the Inside Flap:

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of "A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over twenty years, it is one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0613705300
• ISBN 13: 9780613705301
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Number of pages: 208