A separate peace / John Knowles.
By: Knowles, John
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: ScribnerDate of publication: 1987Description: 204 pages: 21 cm.ISBN: 9780743253970.Subject(s): Boys -- New hampshire -- Fiction | Death -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Preparatory school students -- FictionDDC classification: 813.54 K762 1987 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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