Boys, Death, Preparatory schools, Friendship, Preparatory school students, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, New hampshire, fiction, Friendship, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction
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Overview
As the novel opens, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, the New Hampshire boarding school he attended during World War II.Synopsis
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.
Book Details
Published
October 7, 2003
Publisher
Scribner
Pages
208
ISBN
9780743253970