Philip Beards stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzios letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington.Dear Zoeis a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and nave, world- worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Tess begins her letter to Zoe as a means of figuring out her own life, her place in the world, but the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours. BACKCOVER: LikeThe 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 protagonists anguish simply and sensitively. . . and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters.
The Washington Post
The whole novel . . . rings with truth.
The Buffalo News
Dear Zoe
Beard, Philip
$21.60 - $27.00
- UPC:
- 9780452287402
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2006-04-25
- Release Date:
- 2006-04-25
- Author:
- Philip Beard
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- Reprint
Zoe's Sunny Day
$1,200.00 - $1,500.00
