| A Separate Peace Contributor(s): Knowles, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743253973 ISBN-13: 9780743253970 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 Annotation: A novel of unrest among 16-year-olds in a boy's school at theopening of WorldWar II. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1030 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.42" W x 8.42" (0.44 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Topical - Friendship - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Catalog Heading - Classics - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 545 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Knowles, John: - John Knowles, who died in 2001, was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. |