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A separate peace

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, 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.

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  • "Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, 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."@en
  • "Gene Fowler is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, charismatic athlete. Their bittersweet rivalry leads to a tragic accident during the ill-fated summer of 1942, disrupting the uneasy peace of their artificial oasis and forcing them to accept the realities of manhood."@en
  • "The novel is about a friendship that develops between two boys while they are on a summer vacation during World War II."@en
  • "As World War II threatens a prep school's peaceful environment, the friendship between two roommates begins to fall apart as the war escalates."@en
  • "Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, [this book] 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."
  • "Novel about a friendship that develops between two boys while they are on a summer vacation during World War II."@en
  • "Devon Schook, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it's the summer of 1942 and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school's peaceful environment. Their idyllic world begins to fall apart as the war escalates, and suspicion and the complexities of adolescence result in violence and betrayal."@en
  • "Devon Schook, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it's the summer of 1942 and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school's peaceful environment. Their idyllic world begins to fall apart as the war escalates, and suspicion and the complexities of adolescence result in violence and betrayal."
  • ""At a New England boarding school during World War II, two best friends share an experience that steals their innocence"--Container."@en
  • "Presents a novel about a friendship that develops between two boys during a summer vacation at the Devon school during World War II."
  • "Presents a novel about a friendship that develops between two boys during a summer vacation at the Devon school during World War II."@en
  • ""The narrator-protagonist Gene Forrester looks back 15 years to a World War II Year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. The element of rivalry in their friendship is dramatized by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy." Booklist."@en
  • "The story of two best friends at a New England boarding school during World wAr II."
  • "The bittersweet rivalry between a lonely, introverted intellectual and a handsome, charismatic, daredevil athlete leads to a tragic accident during the ill-fated summer of '42."@en
  • "Devon School in New Hampshire is a perfect world for adolescent boys. But in the summer of 1942 their idyllic world begins to fall apart as World War II escalates and the rivalries and complexities of growing up result in violence and betrayal."@en

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  • "A separate peace a novel"
  • "A separate peace"
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