- Boys, Death, Preparatory schools, Friendship
Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New hampshire boarding school.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Knowles
- First published
- February 1, 1960
- Pages
- 196
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, A Bantam Book, John Knowles
- Editions
- 103
- Language
- Italian, tur, German, und
- ISBN
- 9780606341608
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First sentence
“As the novel opens, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, the New Hampshire boarding school he attended during World War II.”
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