A Separate Peace
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3.6 • 32 Ratings
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- $14.99
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.
Customer Reviews
A good read
A really good coming of age story that I remembered reading in high school and just got back to reading again recently. It’s as good as I remember. I like it better than a catcher in the rye, but perhaps not as good as brides head revisited.