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A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1958. Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.
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.
A Separate Peace, novel by John Knowles, published in 1959. It recalls with psychological insight the maturing of a 16-year-old student at a New England preparatory school during World War II. Looking back to his youth, the adult Gene Forrester reflects on his life as a student at Devon School in.
Simon & Schuster, 2014 - Fiction - 270 pages. 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...
A Separate Peace is a timeless novel by John Knowles, initially published in 1959. The coming-of-age story unfolds within the confines of Devon School, a fictional all-boys preparatory school nestled in the landscapes of New Hampshire during the turbulent era of World War II.
Time and place written New England, 1957–1958. Date of first publication 1959. Publisher Macmillan. In-depth Facts: Narrator Gene Forrester narrates the story as he revisits his high school campus and recalls events that happened fifteen years earlier.
A Separate Peace was first published in London by Secker and Warburg in 1959. Published in New York in 1960 by Macmillan, it is his most celebrated work. The novel is based upon Knowles's experiences at Phillips Exeter Academy.
