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John Knowles
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 Institute of Arts and Letters. show more

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 Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Birth date: September 16, 1926
Died: November 29, 2001
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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 10 years ago
This book is probably my Catcher in the Rye (I didn't read Catcher in the Rye until I was an adult and I didn't like it). I read this the day after I received it in class junior year of high school. I only remembered the ending and the scene where Phineas breaks the school swimming record. Somehow...
Nithou's Readings
Nithou's Readings rated it 10 years ago
J'ai retrouvé dans ce livre beaucoup d'autres, quelque chose du Cercle des Poètes disparus et du Maître des illusions, le tout accompagné, au fil d'une amitié extrêmement forte aux sentiments de rivalités assez forts... On retrouve le côté strict d'un collège américain, l'amitié forte entre ses memb...
Casual Debris
Casual Debris rated it 11 years ago
For my full review, please visit Casual Debris. Having been educated in Canada, neither A Separate Peace nor its author John Knowles were familiar to me until a stranger at a book fair recommended the novel long after I had finished high school. South of the border, of course, the novel has been t...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
This is a perfectly solid novel. The style is often lyrical, eloquent, is perceptive about the the workings of envy and insecurities of the teen years. I appreciated the emotional restraint that keeps the elegiacal tone from seeping too much into sentimentality. So I'm not sure what leaves me so unm...
In Love of Books and Friendship
In Love of Books and Friendship rated it 12 years ago
I remember this book being popular when I was in high school. It was on a reading list we had to choose from to read and give an oral book report. It was a popular choice because it was less than 200 pages. What did I choose? Gone with the Wind, 750 pages. Needless to say, I was the only one in my c...
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