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  • A Separate Peace

  • A story of two friends during their last year in a private boarding school in 1942. This was a good story but it didn't really do much to set itself apart from other similar stories.

    

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  • This was another summer reading book I had. It's theme is akin to A Catcher in the Rye, but it is not quite as good.

    

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• ― Batona said on Mar 24, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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.

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