A Separate Peace |
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Author:
| Knowles, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-7432-5397-0 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
Publisher: | Scribner
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Imprint: | Scribner |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. 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 World War II. 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...
More Description Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
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 World War II.
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.