Separate Peace

Separate Peace

An American coming-of-age tale during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war



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.

Auteur | John Knowles
Taal | Engels
Type | Paperback
Categorie | Literatuur & Romans

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Boekomslag voor ISBN: 9781472151520
Boekomslag voor ISBN: 9780743253970


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