TY - BOOK N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - A separate peace / DA - 2003, c1987. CY - New York : AU - Knowles, John, ET - 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. CN - PS3561.N68 CN - PS3561.N68 PB - Scribner, PP - New York : PY - 2003, c1987. ID - 308741 KW - Preparatory school students KW - Friendship KW - Death KW - Boys KW - Preparatory schools SN - 0743253973 (pbk.) SN - 9780743253970 (pbk.) TI - A separate peace / ER -