num_pages: 196
description: Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years - one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence.
language: English
title: A Separate Peace
titlecomplete: A Separate Peace
characters: Phineas, Gene Forrester
genres: Fiction, Classics, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Read For School, Historical Fiction, High School, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 214685
places: New Hampshire
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, awardedAt: -283968000000
name: William Faulkner Foundation Award, awardedAt: -283968000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Bantam Books