description: Devon School, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it's the summer of 1942 and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school's peaceful environment. Paralleling the war, where enemies real and imagined are sometimes collaborated with and sometimes destroyed, is the friendship between Gene and Phineas, two students attending the 1942 summer session at Devon. Their idyllic world begins to fall apart as the war escalates, and suspicion and the complexities of adolescence result in violence and betrayal. A Separate Peace has become a modern classic.
language: English
title: A Separate Peace
titlecomplete: A Separate Peace
characters: Phineas, Gene Forrester
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, School, Young Adult, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, High School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 214733
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: Blackstone Audiobooks