A Separate Peace (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Knowles
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, Values, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, 1940’s, World War II, Friendship, Guilt, New England, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Fear, Upper classes, Accidents, Death or dying, Boston, Human behavior, Athletes, Students or student life, Private schools
- Locales: Boston, MA, New Hampshire
With its publication in the United States in 1960 (it was first published in England), John Knowles's short novel A Separate Peace became an instant success with young readers. Within that year, the book was granted three awards: the first William Faulkner Foundation Award, the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Association of Independent Schools Award.
The novel has a simple story line presented initially in the first-person voice, but it quickly modifies to a dual view of events as experienced in a flashback view of incidents...
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