Pub Date: October 1, 1996
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 96025844
Lexile Code: 1030
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.50" L x 5.60" W ( 0.80 lbs) 208 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Coming of Age | Literary
Series: Scribner Classics
Description: 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.
Brief description: John Knowles (1926-2001) 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. His books include A Separate Peace, Peace Breaks Out, and The Paragon.
Review Quotes: Aubrey Menen 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.