A Separate Peace

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.

Author: John Knowles
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/01/2016
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.42w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780743253970
ISBN10: 0743253973
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
John Knowles, who died in 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.