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A Separate Peace

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A Separate Peace is set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II. It explores the complex friendship between Gene, a lonely and introverted intellectual, and Phineas, a charismatic and daring athlete. The novel poignantly captures their adolescence, revealing how a single summer profoundly changes their lives, reflecting the broader loss of innocence experienced by a nation at war.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This timeless novel will appeal to readers interested in coming-of-age stories, historical fiction around World War II, and psychological drama exploring friendship and identity.

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A novel of unrest among 16-year-olds in a boy's school at theopening of WorldWar II.

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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 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780743253970

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 204g

Pages: 208

About the Author

John Knowles, who died in 2001, was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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