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. "Snively brilliantly captures the protagonist's memories." "Like Gene himself, Snively's narration is sometimes wistful, sometimes regretful, sometimes hesitant…Snively does an excellent job conveying emotions in scenes of conflict…This is an excellent treatment of a modern classic." "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." "Intense, mesmerizing, and compelling."

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