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."
