A Separate Peace

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's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 10/01/1996
ISBN: 9780684833668
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 545 / Separate Peace
Reading Level: 6.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10