{"product_id":"a-separate-peace-9780743253970","title":"A Separate Peace","description":"\u003cb\u003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, \u003ci\u003e A Separate Peace \u003c\/i\u003eis timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, \u003ci\u003eA Separate Peace \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Knowles, who died in 2001, was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50569844687122,"sku":"9780743253970","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7ad91a6f-fe01-4704-a129-88e2328f4fbd.jpg?v=1731957232","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-separate-peace-9780743253970","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}