A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace

By John Knowles

Pages

206

Rating

3.59

Year

1959

High SchoolYoung AdultFictionHistorical FictionClassicsComing-of-Age

Description

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.

An American classic, timeless in its depiction of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.

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