A separate peace /

By: Knowles, John, 1926-2001 [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2016Description: 288 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471152320 (pbk.) :Subject(s): New England -- FictionGenre/Form: General.DDC classification: 813.54 LOC classification: PS3561.N68Summary: 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.
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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.