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. 第二次世界大站期間,在美國參戰(zhàn)的前夕吉恩和菲尼就讀于高中。由于暗中嫉妒菲尼的成就又懷疑菲尼對自己心懷嫉妒,吉恩在不自覺中作下了令自己后悔終身的事。在傷害了朋友的同時他更大地傷害了自己。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. 第二次世界大站期間,在美國參戰(zhàn)的前夕吉恩和菲尼就讀于高中。由于暗中嫉妒菲尼的成就又懷疑菲尼對自己心懷嫉妒,吉恩在不自覺中作下了令自己后悔終身的事。在傷害了朋友的同時他更大地傷害了自己。