A Separate Peace

About this book

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American 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.

Details

Format

Hardcover

ISBN-13

9780684833668

Publisher

Scribner Book Company

Published

October 1, 1996

Pages

208

Weight

12.8 oz

Subject

Fiction