TY - BOOK AU - Knowles,John TI - A separate peace SN - 0743253973 AV - PS3561.N68 S4 1996 U1 - RBC/820/KNO 20 PY - 2003///, c1987 CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Preparatory school students KW - Fiction KW - Friendship KW - Death KW - Boys KW - Preparatory schools KW - New Hampshire N2 - 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 -