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Publisher: Scribner (Sitnbr 30, 2003) Language: English Paperback: 208 pages Ishbhn-10: 0743253973 Ishbhn-13: 978-0743253970 Item weight: 200 G Size: L3k97 X Lk52 X 2lk43 Cm -------- Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. 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 World War II. 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.