A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years,<i> A Separate Peace </i>is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.<br /><br />Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, <i>A Separate Peace </i>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.