A Separate Peace
As heard on BBC Radio 4
By John Knowles
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.
- ISBN:
- 9781471152320
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 288
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Imprint:
- Simon & Schuster Ltd