The Friday Feature for today is A Separate Peace (1959) by John Knowles.
Synopsis from Goodreads:
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.
I think A Separate Peace is still under copyright, so I couldn't find a site where you can read it for free online. You can get a copy for $0.01 on Amazon.
Did you know that A Separate Peace is a bildungsroman? Have you read it?
I read A Separate Peace in high school. I think we read it in freshman English with Sr. Denis. We read a lot of books in that class!
