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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781501160608
- Categories BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, extraordinary, Fiction, Whateversary
- Author(s) John Knowles
- Publisher Scribner
- Pages 288
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 28.0cm x 0.4cm x 21.5cm
- Weight 0.45 kg
product description
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ'
'A novel that made such a deep impression on me at sixteen that I can still conjure the atmosphere in my fifties: of yearning, infatuation mingled indistinguishably with envy, and remorse' Lionel Shriver
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 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.
