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故事以第二次世界大戰(zhàn)為背景，主人公吉恩回憶十五年前在德文學(xué)校求學(xué)時(shí)期他和同學(xué)特別是和菲尼亞斯相處在一起時(shí)發(fā)生的事情。那是1942年夏，十七足歲的高年級(jí)學(xué)生為應(yīng)征入伍都要進(jìn)行備戰(zhàn)訓(xùn)練。有一項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練項(xiàng)目是爬樹，再?gòu)臉渖咸牒又?。吉恩和菲尼亞斯等人都不滿十七歲，但他們也都私下去爬樹跳水。吉恩比較孤獨(dú)，性格內(nèi)向，但在班上學(xué)習(xí)成績(jī)名列前茅，菲尼亞斯慷慨大方，有一股犟勁，是全校最好的運(yùn)動(dòng)員。吉恩渴望能在畢業(yè)典禮上當(dāng)學(xué)生代表致告別詞，但他擔(dān)心菲尼亞斯會(huì)取代他去致詞；另一方面，他妒忌菲尼亞斯，卻又誤認(rèn)為菲尼亞斯是個(gè)妒忌他，想阻止他學(xué)業(yè)進(jìn)步的人，因而暗中對(duì)菲尼亞斯懷有敵意；而菲尼亞斯一直信任吉恩，并視他為自己最好的朋友。一次，他們又同去爬樹跳水，菲尼亞斯剛爬到一棵小樹枝上，由于吉恩在后面震動(dòng)了樹枝，菲尼亞斯失卻平衡跌了下去，以致成了跛子。后來吉恩向菲尼亞斯承認(rèn)事故是他造成的，但菲尼亞斯怎么也不相信。之后，其他同學(xué)也逼著吉恩把事實(shí)經(jīng)過說說明白，可就在當(dāng)天晚上，菲尼亞斯又摔跤受傷，最后因開刀死在手術(shù)臺(tái)上。    故事以吉恩懷著獨(dú)自和解的心情從回憶往事的角度來描述，故對(duì)主人公的內(nèi)心思想活動(dòng)刻劃得非常細(xì)膩。    本書適宜于大學(xué)英語專業(yè)中、高年級(jí)學(xué)生及具有相仿英語水平的社會(huì)讀者閱讀欣賞。

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約翰·諾爾斯（John Knowles，1926- ），生于西弗吉尼亞州的費(fèi)爾蒙特，就讀于耶魯大學(xué)，后任《假日》（Holiday）的副主編，曾獲威廉·?？思{基金獎(jiǎng)。接著，他的第一本小說A Separate Peace問世，獲得了國(guó)家文學(xué)藝術(shù)學(xué)院的羅森塔爾獎(jiǎng)（Rosenthal Award）。諾爾斯曾在普林斯頓

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　　He was still talking when I fell asleep, and the next morning, through the icy atmosphere which one win- dow raised an“ inch had admitted to our room, he woke me with the overindignant shout, “What is all this crap about no maids！”　He was“ sitting up in bed, as though ready to spring out of it, totally and energetically awake. I had to laugh at this indignant athlete, with the strength of five people, complaining about the service.　 He threw back his bedclothes and said, “Hand me my crutches, will you ？”　　Until now, in spite of everything, I had welcomed each new day as though it were a new life, where all past failures and problems were erased, and all future possibilities and joys open and available, to be achieved probably before night fell again.　Now, in this winter of snow and crutches with Phineas, I began to Know that each morning reasserted the problems of the night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn‘t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.　Phineas however did not believe this. I’m sure that he looked down at his leg every morning first thing, as soon as he remembered it, to see if it had not been totally restored while he slept.　When he found on this first morning back at Devon that it hap- pened still to be crippled and is a cast.

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