Author: Knowles, John
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 
Published 30/06/2016 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of the AN AMERICAN CLASSIC series 
Paperback | 288 pages
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' 'A novel that made such a deep impression on me at sixteen that I can still conjure the atmosphere in my fifties: of yearning, infatuation mingled indistinguishably with envy, and remorse' Lionel ShriverAn American coming-of-age tale during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.
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.