A Separate Peace

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Knowles
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781471152320
• ISBN: 978-1-4711-5232-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 21 mm
• Series: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary