Books by John Knowles
“What I really love about it is that it’s one of the very few novels that I read as a kid that deal with that really intense kind of friendship between boys, a kind of presexual love story that grows up at boarding schools when there are no women around. I became very affected by it because of the subtlety of the psychological portrait of the two.” Read more...
Meg Rosoff, Children's Author
Interviews where books by John Knowles were recommended
The Best Coming-of-Age Books, recommended by Meg Rosoff
The award-winning novelist Meg Rosoff talks about coming-of-age tales, highlighting the wonder of the moment when adolescents find the world suddenly coming into focus.
