If your into coming of age novels (which I am) this is a must read. It’s one of the best examining of the teenage mind ever. Knowles puts into words what I struggle to, and he does it beautifuly.

Take an afternoon off and read this. If you’re female, it’s likely to make you cry.

This book made me cry!

(And that is NOT a common occurence!)

Product Description:

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.

Yea, I should get started.