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A Separate Peace


Classification

Series Number: 974
Genre: Fiction
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Condition: New
Read: ✓
Shelf: 23
Goodreads: Yes

General

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Author: Knowles, John
Binding: Softback
Cover Price: 12.99
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Publishing

Publisher: Scribner
Copyright Year: 2003
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN#: 0-7432-5397-3
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Pages: 204
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Comments

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.

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.