Audio
Reviews:
"Snively brilliantly captures the protagonist's memories of 1942 when he
was young and innocent, before his life changed forever."
-
Booklist
Narrator Scott Snively's ability...provides
both the story and the setting with an immediacy that quickly engages listeners.
Not only does Snively give a distinctive voice to each
of the main characters,
he also delineates the mannerisms and personalities of the other boys and teachers
surrounding them. Intense, mesmerizing, compelling...this rendition of a classic
coming-of-age tale belongs in all public library collections and will be especially
helpful to
high school students as an accompaniment to the written text."
-School Library Journal
"Snively's voiced
reading is excellent. With distinct and apt personalities for the different characters,
his reading is persuasive - and true. Gene comes alive for the listener. Highly
recommended."
 Starred
Review - KLIATT
"This is an excellent treatment
of a modern classic. Snively does an excellent job conveying emotions in scenes
of conflict...and ably conveys anger and sadness...in a way that sounds genuine,
never forced."
-AudioFile
SYNOPSIS:
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 WWII 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. Narrator Scott
Snively turns this extraordinary novel in a compelling listening experience -
intense and engaging to the last word.
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