**Our book is *A Separate Peace* by John Knowles,**
**nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s *The Great America.***

**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.**

“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.” —Aubrey Menen

“A quietly vital and cleanly written novel that moves, page by page, towards a most interesting target.” —Truman Capote

“A masterpiece.” —National Review

“A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.” —The Observer

“Mr. Knowles has something to say about youth and war that few contemporary novelists have attempted to say and none has said better.” —Warren Miller

***Wear your fav pajamas!***
***Can't wait for cozy holiday book club at Byllie's*** *: **o )***

**IMPORTANT Bring $10 towards hostess costs and a bottle of wine or the beverage of your choice. If you sign up and then find out you cannot attend, please change your status to Not Going by the Wednesday before whenever possible. Attendees canceling late (Th, F or the day of the event) and any no-shows will be responsible for messaging Byllie and sending her $10 towards costs. Thanks.**

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