Separate Peace, A

Type

Book

Authors

John Knowles

ISBN 10

0743253973

ISBN 13

9780743253970

Tags

classics, Coming of Age, United states, Literary, anglais, english, novel, LGBT, World War II, Lexile 1030L

Abstract

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.

Description

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.

Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1961), William Faulkner Foundation Award (1961), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1961)

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