A Separate Peace (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780684833668)

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.

Author: John Knowles
ISBN-10: 0684833662
ISBN-13: 9780684833668
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1996
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 545 / Separate Peace


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23