Audio Reviews:
"Snively brilliantly captures the protagonist's memories of 1942
when he was young and innocent, before his life changed forever."
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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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