{"product_id":"a-separate-peace-9781471152320b","title":"A Separate Peace","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAn American coming-of-age tale during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II,\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e A Separate Peace\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'A novel that made such a deep impression on me at sixteen that I can still conjure the atmosphere in my fifties: of yearning, infatuation mingled indistinguishably with envy, and remorse' Lionel Shriver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42820923097168,"sku":"9781471152320B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781471152320-l.jpg?v=1785881643","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/a-separate-peace-9781471152320b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}