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Book Review of A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace
Author: John Knowles
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War 11 is the subject of this great bestseller for over twenty years. One of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence.