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The friendship of 2 boys at a boarding school is changed when there is an incident happens. This is also a time of innocence for these 16 and 17 year old boys as they face the possibility of WWII.
I liked some of the author's prose but feel that the story may be dated. Not sure if today's teenage boys would relate to the events in the book.
Goodreads summary:
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 innocence of these boys and their world.
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