Knowles, John, 1926-2001,
A separate peace / John Knowles. - London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2016. - 288 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: London: Secker and Warburg, 1959.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, this novel 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.
9781471152320 (pbk.) : �8.99
New England--Fiction.
General.
PS3561.N68
813.54
A separate peace / John Knowles. - London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2016. - 288 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: London: Secker and Warburg, 1959.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, this novel 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.
9781471152320 (pbk.) : �8.99
New England--Fiction.
General.
PS3561.N68
813.54