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A separate peace / by John Knowles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scribner, 2003, ©1987.Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. edDescription: 208 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0743253973
  • 9780743253970
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3561.N68 S4 2003
Summary: Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.
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Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.

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