A Separate Peace
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4.2 • 6 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
With his coming-of-age classic, John Knowles brilliantly captures the duality of adoration and resentment that’s so common in teenage friendships. The story is told through the eyes of Gene, a bookish boy whose free-spirited best friend, Phineas, makes everything fun and adventurous. When Phineas suffers a terrible fall, it’s unclear whether it was an accident or not. Meanwhile, World War II rages on in the world outside the boys’ New England boarding school, and the inevitability of the draft hangs over everyone. A Separate Peace has stood the test of time because the emotions here are so authentic and relatable. This dark, brooding story sparkles with life.
