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.