| A Separate Peace Contributor(s): Knowles, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684833662 ISBN-13: 9780684833668 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: John Knowles' beloved classic has been a bestseller for more than 30 years and is one of the most moving and accurate novels about the trials and confusions of adolescence ever written. Set at an elite boarding school for boys during World War II, A Separate Peace is the story of friendship and treachery, and how a tragic accident involving two young men forever tarnishes their innocence. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96025844 |
| Lexile Measure: 1030 |
| Series: Scribner Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Topical - Friendship - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| 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. |