A Separate Peace | A Separate Peace: War and the Human Heart
In the following excerpt, Holborn describes A Separate Peace as a novel about war, especially within the human heart.
David G. Holborn
In the following excerpt, Holborn describes A Separate Peace as a novel about war, especially within the human heart.
It is hard to imagine a book that has more to say to youth about to enter the conflict-ridden adult world than John Knowles' A Separate Peace. Huck Finn and The Catcher in the Rye come immediately to mind as forbears of this novel of maturation, and if Knowles lacks the range and dramatic intensity of Twain, he at least provides more answers than Salinger to the vexing problems of adolescence. The novel is...
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