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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Separate Peace (originale 1959; edizione 2003)di John Knowles
Informazioni sull'operaPace separata: romanzo di John Knowles (1959)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I love the writing! The story was sad, but I expected it to be with a title like that and with the time period it's set in (WW II). I listened to it on audiobook, and the narrator was really good. The voice he used for each character fit their personality so well (in fact, you could guess their personalites by their voices alone). I think a lot of people read this in high school, but I didn't. I decided to pick it up because I kept seeing it everywhere. My impressions: 1. There are almost no females in it. The lack of girls and the lack of interest in girls among these 16- to 18-year-old guys, made me think that the two main characters were in love with each other, which is probably just because I minored in gender studies. But, really, the total lack of anything sexual was an interesting choice. 2. This is a deep, dark book about living in wartime. I was reminded of how little the Iraq war affected my time in college compared to how tremendously WWII affected the boys at the boarding school in the story. 3. Obviously, this is also a story about the psychology of adolescence, particularly among young men, particularly in a competitive and isolated environment. The way they talked was so old-fashioned, though, that I kept picturing them as much younger, like 12 or 13. 4. How reliable of a narrator is Gene? Can Finny really be so perfect? I went back and forth on this. I kind of hated Gene, but I also felt so sorry for him. 5. Overall, a really fascinating book that I'm sorry to read all by myself with no professor to guide a discussion. The book tells the story of boys at a boarding school in New Hampshire during 1942-43. The heart of the book is the relationships between the various boys at the school. It is primarily about the protagonist, Gene, and his friend Phineas, their friendship and their rivalry. But the war is an ever present background, which eventually intrudes in the story when one student leaves to enlist, and suffers a mental breakdown as a result, before he is ever sent overseas to fight. There is a surprising plot twist at the end. Overall, this is a sad story, and I have mixed feelings about it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The story was kind of depressing and the portrayal of school life was superficial and did not seem that realistic to me. I was more interested by the psychological aspect of the novel, with the narrator's guilt about his action.
A quick read, but I was still kind of disappointed. The characters were too annoying for me to be really invested in what happened to them. Not devoid of interest, but it could have been better. ( )