A Separate Peace

Product Description [Read by Scott Snively] Devon School, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it's the summer of 1942 and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school's peaceful environment. Paralleling the war, where enemies real and imagined are sometimes collaborated with and sometimes destroyed, is the friendship between Gene and Phineas, two students attending the 1942 summer session at Devon. Their idyllic world begins to fall apart as the war escalates, and suspicion and the complexities of adolescence result in violence and betrayal. A Separate Peace has become a modern classic. Review ''I think it is the best-written, best-designed, and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself.'' --Aubrey Menen, New York Times bestselling author ''Intense, mesmerizing, and compelling.'' --School Library Journal ''I think it is the best-written, best-designed, and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself.'' --Aubrey Menen ''Mr. Knowles has something to say about youth and war that few contemporary novelists have attempted to say and none has said better.'' --Warren Miller ''A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.'' -- The Observer ''A masterpiece.'' --National Review ''(Audiobook Narrator) Snively brilliantly captures the protagonist's memories.'' --Booklist About the Author John Knowles (1926-2001) was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Yale. His first novel, A Separate Peace, was published in 1959 and adapted for film in 1972. In 2004 it was adapted again as a television movie by Showtime. He wrote seven novels, a book on travel, and a collection of stories. He was the winner of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.