02070cam a2200409 i 4500 91632254 TxAuBib 20000619120000.0 960521s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96025844 9780684833668 0684833662 (OCoLC)34822547 TxAuBib rda Knowles, John, 1926- A separate peace [Print] / by John Knowles. 1st Scribner Classics ed. New York : Scribner Classics, 1996. 204 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New Hampshire (United States.) 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. 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 crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. 20000619. Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1961), William Faulkner Foundation Award (1961), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1961.) Preparatory school students Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Death Fiction. Boys Fiction. New Hampshire Fiction. Historical fiction. FICTION / Classics. FICTION / Coming of Age. FICTION / Literary. TXTLL