John Knowles alcanzó la fama con su novela debut, que capta magistralmente las complejidades de la adolescencia y las dinámicas cambiantes de las relaciones dentro de los venerables pasillos de una escuela internado de élite. Su escritura destaca por su penetrante profundidad psicológica y su habilidad para representar la delgada línea entre la amistad, la rivalidad y las emociones no expresadas. Knowles se centró en explorar temas de inocencia, pérdida y la búsqueda de identidad, a menudo basándose en experiencias personales para crear entornos vívidos y creíbles para sus personajes. Su estilo literario se caracteriza por una dicción precisa y descripciones evocadoras que transportan al lector al corazón del mundo experimentado.
The story follows a chance encounter between a young man from rural Australia and an adventurous woman from regional New Zealand in Hong Kong. Their meeting sparks a journey of faith that leads them through unexpected experiences and challenges, exploring themes of love, adventure, and spiritual growth as they navigate their intertwined destinies.
Pete is a sensitive, handsome young war hero. Wexford is a defiant, scheming troublemaker. Their lives collide in the uneasy days of peace after World War II as senior year at the Devon School changes from a time of friendships into a stunning drama of tragic betrayal. With the unforgettable power and simplicity that made A Separate Peace into a modern classic, this masterful companion volume by John Knowles takes us once again on a warmly nostalgic journey through the poignancy of adolescence — and gives us another landmark portrayal of the dark side of the human heart.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. 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 World War II. 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. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.