TY - GEN AU - Knowles,John TI - A separate peace SN - 9780743253970 AV - PS 3561 K73s 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Scribner Classics, KW - Novela estadounidense KW - Literatura estadounidense N2 - 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 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. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic ER -