A Separate Peace

ISBN-13:	9780743253970
Publisher:	Scribner
Publication date:	09/30/2003
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	10,390
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

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