A Separate Peace

New York: Macmillan, 1960.

Price: $200.00

Hardcover. Second printing. Owner name on front fly, light foxing on page edges, binding slightly cocked, very good in a lightly toned, very good dust jacket with creases, a two inch tear on the rear panel, and faint interior foxing. The author's first book, a classic and influential coming-of-age novel. Filmed once theatrically (in 1972 with Parker Stevenson) and twice more for television.

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Item #555481 A Separate Peace. John KNOWLES.

John Knowles
birth name: John Knowles
born: 9/16/1926
died: 11/29/2001

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American author who gained prominence for his first published novel, A Separate Peace (1959). Most of his novels were psychological examinations of characters caught in conflict between the wild and pragmatic sides of their personalities. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore