A Separate Peace (Scribner Classics)

John Knowles

ISBN 10: 0684833662 / ISBN 13: 9780684833668

Verlag: Scribner, 1996

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0684833662-3-19727803

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: John Knowles (1926–2001) was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His books include Separate Peace, Peace Breaks Out, and The Paragon. 

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Separate Peace (Scribner Classics)
Verlag: Scribner
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good