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A Separate Peace: As heard on BBC Radio 4
Paperback / softback
Main Details
| Title |
A Separate Peace: As heard on BBC Radio 4
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Knowles
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| Series | AN AMERICAN CLASSIC |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:288 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 130 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781471152320
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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| Edition |
Reissue
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Simon & Schuster Ltd
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| Imprint |
Simon & Schuster Ltd
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| Publication Date |
30 June 2016 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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.
Author Biography
John Knowles (1926-2001) was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His books include Separate Peace, Peace Breaks Out, and The Paragon.
Reviews'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
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