Originally published: 1959
Author: John Knowles
Genres: Novel, Bildungsroman, Young adult literature, and more
Sequel: Peace Breaks Out (1981)
Pages: 236
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Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace follows the friendship of the serious, intellectual Gene ...
We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction. Phineas was the essence of this careless peace. Not that he was ...
The novel delves into universal themes such as friendship, jealousy, and the loss of innocence, all set against the backdrop of a boarding school in wartime.
Finny prods Gene into making a dangerous jump out of a tree into a river, and the two start a secret society based on this ritual. Gene gradually begins to envy ...