"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 the second world war.
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.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic."--from the publisher
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Gene, a boy from the American South is attending an exclusive New Hampshire prep school. He makes friends with a New Englander, Phineas, who hails from Boston. The two boys could not be more different.
Phineas is athletic, handsome and a risk taker. His friend, Gene, is introverted and an intellectual. Under the shadow of World War II, the bond between the two boys grows. Then, in the midst of horseplay a tragedy occurs and each boy faces the fact that neither of them is who he has seemed to be.
204 pages 9780743253970 Ages 14 and up
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
