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Peace Breaks Out, John Knowles (1981)

On August 21, 2017December 12, 2025 By LaurieIn American LiteratureLeave a comment

But no men got killed by the enemy, not one, on United States soil…They never got here. Do you realize what that saved the American psyche from? Think how we would have felt if we’d seen Germans parading down Fifth Avenue in New York, locking up President Roosevelt, pasting up orders on buildings telling what …

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A Separate Peace, John Knowles (1959)

On January 14, 2016December 12, 2025 By LaurieIn American LiteratureLeave a comment

Finney never left anything alone, not when it was well enough, not when it was perfect. “Let’s go jump in the river,” he said under his breath as we went out of the sunporch. He forced compliance by leaning against me as we walked along, changing my direction; like a police car squeezing me to …

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