{"product_id":"a-separate-peace-by-john-knowles-9780743253970","title":"A Separate Peace","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, \u003ci\u003eA Separate Peace\u003c\/i\u003e is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, \u003ci\u003eA Separate Peace\u003c\/i\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. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642772701420,"sku":"9780743253970","price":49.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780743253970-a-separate-peace.jpg?v=1779157347","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-separate-peace-by-john-knowles-9780743253970","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}