A Separate Peace

by JohnKnowles (Author)

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  Paperback
  2014

  $11.92

  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.