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An American coming-of-age tale 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 Peaceis 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.
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A Separate Peace, John Knowles
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- A Separate Peace
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Knowles
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1471152324
- ISBN13
- 9781471152320
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Friendship, School, Coming Of Age, High School, Accident
- Original title
- A separate peace
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- An American coming-of-age tale 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 Peaceis 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.