TY - BOOK AU - Knowles,John TI - A separate peace SN - 9781471152320 (pbk.) : AV - PS3561.N68 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. KW - New England KW - Fiction KW - General KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: London: Secker and Warburg, 1959 N2 - 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 ER -