A separate peace

by John Knowles

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Original publication date

1959

Important places

Devon School (New Hampshire, USA)

People/Characters

Gene Forrester

Elwin "Leper" Lepellier

Brinker Hadley

Phineas

Awards and honors

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (67)

National Book Award finalist (Fiction, 1961)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1960)

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Dedication

To Bea and Jim with gratitude and love

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I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743253973, Paperback)

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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