A Separate Peace (Paperback) John Knowles (author)

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.

Publisher information
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781471152320
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 198 x 130 mm
Language: English
Edition: Reissue