![]() This novel was chosen as the January selection by the Back to the Classics Book Club at the Kewaunee Public Library. Paperback (September 30th, 2003): $17.00 This was my first time reading the coming-of-age novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles and it was an excellent story.Like the war itself, what happens between the two friends one summer robs these guys and their world of their innocence. Phineas is a reckless athlete who is attractive and taunts others. Gene is an introverted, lonely intellectual. A Separate Peace is a horrific and brilliant fable about the dark side of adolescence set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II. ![]() A Separate Peace has been a bestseller in the United States for nearly thirty years, and it is ageless in its depiction of youth during a time when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. PBS's The Great American Read named it one of America's best-loved novels. ![]()
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