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A Separate Peace

John Knowles

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence.

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Book Details

Genre:

Historical Fiction

Age Level:

Any Age

A Separate Peace review by SHC

SHC

Best friends Gene and Phineas are completely different. Gene is smart, while Phineas is athletic with a very outgoing personality. During a time when war is one everyones mind, Phineas is able to distract Gene and his other friends at Devon, a boarding school for boys, from the war. They become isolated at Devon, never being exposed to what is really going on around them. Soon, when they are seniors they face the knowledge that they will have to go to war soon and reality comes rushing right at them, and some are not ready to face it.