Dear Zoe
Philip Beard
(Author)
Description
DON'T MISS THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SADIE SINK OF STRANGER THINGS! Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naive, world-worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio hasn't been the same since she lost her sister Zoe to a hit-and-run accident on September 11th--when it seemed like nothing mattered except the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. Dear Zoe is Tess's letter to her sister, written as a means of figuring out her own life and her place in the world--and the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours.
Product Details
Price
$17.00
$15.81
Publisher
Plume Books
Publish Date
April 01, 2006
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.05 X 7.8 X 0.5 inches | 0.37 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780452287402
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About the Author
Philip Beard is a former attorney who practiced law in Pittsburgh before turning to writing. His first novel, Dear Zoe, was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices Selection, and was chosen by Booklist as one of the ten best first novels of 2005.
Reviews
Praise for Dear Zoe "Like The Lovely Bones, [Dear Zoe] is a piercing look at how family recovers from a devastating loss. Everything about this moving, powerful debut rings true."--Booklist (starred review) "Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist's anguish simply and sensitively...and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters."--The Washington Post "Affecting."--Entertainment Weekly "The whole novel...rings with truth."--The Buffalo News "Lovely...moving."--Publishers Weekly "In his soulful debut novel...Philip Beard does a pitch-perfect impersonation but never sugar-coats the depths of a young girl's despair."--Pittsburg-Post Gazette "Dear Zoe is an almost flawless novel of self-discovery and redemption. It is the sort of book that a generation can call 'theirs, ' a book that captures the trials of adolescence and the aching numbness of America in the aftermath of 9/11."--The Press of Atlantic City
