A Separate Peace

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Author/Contributor(s): Knowles, John Publisher: Scribner Date: 9/30/2003 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great Americ an Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over sixty years, A Separate Peace is timeless coming-of-age novel about friendship, rivalry, and 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. Show more