A Separate Peace
Ranked #46 in High School Reading, Ranked #46 in Coming Of Age — see more rankings.
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 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... more
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... more
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Bill Gates CEO/Microsoft[On Bill Gates's reading list in 2011.] (Source)
Meg Rosoff What I really love about it is that it’s one of the very few novels that I read as a kid that deal with that really intense kind of friendship between boys, a kind of presexual love story that grows up at boarding schools when there are no women around. I became very affected by it because of the subtlety of the psychological portrait of the two. (Source)
Rankings by Category
A Separate Peace is ranked in the following categories:
- #50 in 10th Grade
- #73 in 14-Year-Old
- #48 in 15-Year-Old
- #75 in 9th Grade
- #78 in Academia
- #90 in Betrayal
- #56 in High School
- #65 in Teen Boys
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