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
Coming of Age Books, recommended by Meg Rosoff
Finding out where you belong in the world is not a search that starts and ends between 18 and 21, but is about optimism, the passion of youth, and the expectation that things will go well, suggests award-winning novelist Meg Rosoff. She recommends her favourite coming of age books, from Shakespeare’s Hal, preparing to succeed his father as king, to Cormac McCarthy’s John Grady, who ends up in jail.
