A Separate Peace

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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John Knowles
Published: 10/01/1996
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN: 9780684833668
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.50″ L x 5.60″ W

About the Author
Knowles, John: – John Knowles (1926-2001) was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His books include A Separate Peace, Peace Breaks Out, and The Paragon.