A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace

1959 • 208 pages

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. 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.

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Something more than friends
the private war of best pals
savage underneath.

August 8, 2016

Un magnifique roman qui se déroule dans un “lycée” américain en 1942. Le récit tourne principalement autour de Gene et Phineas, deux jeunes garçons de seize ans, amis et camarades de chambrée. L'histoire est finalement assez banale, mais le roman est magnifiquement écrit et passionnant à lire.

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