A separate peace
(2003, original release: 1987)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/FICTION/KNOWLES,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2003
©1987
©1987
EDITION
First Scribner trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION
204 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0743253973, 9780743253970, 0743253973, 9780743253970
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace 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. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic