@article{308741, recid = {308741}, author = {Knowles, John,}, title = {A separate peace /}, publisher = {Scribner,}, address = {New York :}, pages = {204 p. ;}, year = {2003}, 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. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/308741}, }