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AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ'

'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

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.

A Separate Peace: As heard on BBC Radio 4

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    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
    Publication Date: 30/06/2016
    ISBN13: 9781471152320, 978-1471152320
    ISBN10: 1471152324

    Number of Pages: 288

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ'

    '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

    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.

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