A Separate Peace

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Author: John Knowles Brand: Scribner Book Company Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 204 Release Date: 30-09-2003 Part Number: 9780743253970 Details: 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. EAN: 9780743253970 Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.0 inches Languages: EnglishNew York Times No.1 Best Seller in 1934New York Times No.1 Best Seller in 1939 Show more