A separate peace / by John Knowles.
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TextPublication details: New York : Scribner, 2003, ©1987Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. edDescription: 208 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 0743253973; 9780743253970Subject(s): Preparatory school students -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Death -- Fiction | Boys -- Fiction | Preparatory schools -- Fiction | New Hampshire -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans. | Fiction. | Bildungsromans. DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3561.N68 | S4 2003Summary: 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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