Authors:

  • John Knowles
Cover of A Separate Peace

“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.” --Publisher description.

Citations

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996.