| Details | | Publication Date: | 1993-09-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Publisher's Note An award-winning journalist writes about the year he spent in a Florida high school, in a shocking look at young America, as seen through the eyes of five students whom he followed closely. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
Industry Reviews "Riveting...heart-wrenching, frightening, and flat-out funny all at once." New York Newsday - Patricia Kean
"Wonderfully detailed and absolutely convincing....[a] brilliant job of reporting." Entertainment Weekly - Gene Lyons
"This is an astonishing book. It takes the reader to another planet-a high school-where we learn more about what our children think and feel than we can from any presidential task force or foundation report. Somehow, author Thomas Frence was welcomed on our children's planet, where he got to listen and watch. He returned and produced a gem." Book Jacket - Ken Auletta
" 'South of Heaven' is absorbing and harrowing. If you want to know what has gone wrong with our nation's high schools, if you want to know about the hopes and desires and terrible frustrations of our nation's teenagers, read this book. Tom French writes with clarity and with poignancy, and the result is penetrating and provocative." Book Jacket - H.G. Bissinger
"Educating children in modern America has as much to do with healing the human spirit as it does with expanding the mind. Thomas French has documented this with new insights and disturbing accuracy." Book Jacket - Betty Castor
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