A Separate Peace
Author: John Knowles
Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years – one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of a….Read More
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