A separate peace / John Knowles.
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TextSeries: An American classicCopyright date: ©1987Publisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2016Description: 270 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471152320Subject(s): Adolescence -- Fiction | Nineteen forties -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Preparatory school students -- Fiction | New England -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans. Summary: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 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.
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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 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.
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