A Separate Peace

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Call Number: Teen Fiction / Knowles, John, Teen Book / Fiction / Classic / Knowles, John
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Knowles, John	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Knowles, John	4-week checkout	Due 05-05-2024
Pittsfield Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Classic / Knowles, John	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Classic / Knowles, John	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Classic / Knowles, John	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Classic / Knowles, John	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.

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A better classic than some submitted by flemingj on June 27, 2021, 7:38am I wish more people would read this instead of Gatsby, Catcher, and all those other classics.

Such a beautiful book! submitted by TeacherN on June 28, 2021, 9:51am I don't know how I didn't read this book until I was in my 50s. It's one of the best books I've read in a very long time! As flemingj says above, it affected me much more deeply than The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye ever did. I'm going to push my 15-year-old son to read this.