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A Separate Peace is based upon Knowles’ experiences at Exeter during the summer of 1943. Fairmont, West Virginia, was an American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace.Ī 1945 graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949W. John Knowles (Septem– November 29, 2001), b. Movie Trailer for a separate peace (1972) What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love. There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. 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. 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 the second world war.
