SpletSet 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. Spletwelcome than that, because O'Rourke's previous book dealt with manners domestic --- really, really domestic; a work in which the author's three-year old daughter predominated. One got the opinion that P.J. really needed to get out of the house a bit, which he does here. Like most books in the O'Rourke canon, PEACE KILLS is largely a

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SpletIf this book was a river, then its sources were many and its course to the sea was long and winding, with many tributaries, confluences and waystations, and some harsh deserts too. Its most important beginning was beside the great river that one is never destined to drink from only once, during my first period living in Khartoum during ... SpletPeace Kills is P. J. O'Rourke at his most incisive and relevant - an eye-opening look at a world much changed since he declared in his number-one national best seller Give War a … seaview hotel galloway dining

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SpletSharath Srinivasan’s When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans (Hurst/OUP, 2024) provides a refreshing appraisal of the theory and practice of peace-making by drawing attention to its inherent contradictions that contain risks of violent failure. Splet16. jun. 2004 · Peace Kills by P.J. O'Rourke, June 16, 2004, Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed edition, Audio CD in English - Unabridged library edition sea view hotel chania