A Separate Peace, John Knowles
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
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A Separate Peace

Author: John Knowles

Narrator: Matthew Modine

Abridged: 2 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000

Synopsis

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual.  Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete.  What happened between them at school one summer  during the early years of World War II is the  subject of A Separate Peace. A  great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the  most starkly moving parables ever written of the  dark forces that brood over the tortured world of  adolescence.

About The Author

John Knowles, who died in 2001, was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Insititute of Arts and Letters.Matthew Modine is an award-winning actor of stage, television, and film. In film, he is best known for his role as the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy and his iconic role as Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. His television credits include Weeds, And the Band Played On, and Stranger Things.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on September 19, 2015

"And the rays of the sun were shooting past them, millions of rays shooting past them like--like golden machine-gun fire." Gene is a boy from the South attending an exclusive New Hampshire prep school. He becomes best friends with a New Englander from Boston named Phineas. Let me amend that, Phineas......more

Goodreads review by Jim on December 11, 2021

[Edited for typos and pictures added 12/11/21] A short review because I can’t add much to the thousands of reviews that are out there. The story takes place at an elite all-boys New England prep school. (A thinly disguised Phillips Exter Academy in New Hampshire that the author attended.) The two mai......more

Goodreads review by mark on May 31, 2024

uptight boy loves free spirit boy but is too uptight to admit it. fat-ass boy tries to get in the way. then, betrayal.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on June 15, 2007

This book had a profound and lasting impact of me. It is a short, exquisitely crafted story narrated by a talented but unconspicuous boy who is jealous of his best friend, Phineas--who is athletic, beautiful, and kind. Phineas stands tall as the prodigy of American prep adolescence. He is simple; he......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on October 18, 2016

This is one of those "required summer reading novels". In fact, while I am sure they are out there, I don't think I have ever met anyone who read this and it was not required for school. But, it was an enjoyable required read. Focusing on coming of age, schoolboy friendships, etc. Not too much else I......more

Quotes

"I think it is the  best-written, best-designed and most moving novel I  have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny  incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as  deep and as big as evil itself." -- Aubrey  Menen

"A quietly vital and cleanly  written novel that moves, page by page, towards a  most interesting target." -- Truman  Capote

"Is he the successor to Salinger for  whom we have been waiting so long? --  Encounter.

"A masterpiece."  -- National Review.

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