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Dear Zoe
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Dear Zoe Hardcover - 2005

by Beard, Philip

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover

Hours away from pushing the button on a self-publishing deal, lawyer-turned-novelist Philip Beard was won over by the combined efforts of a bookseller, a sales rep, a publisher, and an agent, and brought the book to Viking. With its extraordinary backstory already covered in Publishers Weekly's 'Hot Deals' column, Dear Zoe has got built-in buzz that's just going to keep growing.

Beard's stunning debut is an epistolary novel written from fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio to her little sister Zoe. After Zoe's accidental death on September 11, 2001 a day so many others died Tess's family is numbed by their personal tragedy. Already acutely aware of her odd place in a home where her mother and stepfather now have children of their own, Tess begins her letter as a means of figuring out her own life from her two-hour-a-day hair and makeup ritual to her complicity in Zoe's death. Only after she moves in with her real father, a well-intentioned deadbeat, and stumbles into a halting romance with the sweet but aimless boy next door, does Tess begin to open her heart once more.

Not since The Lovely Bones has there been a study of grief, adolescence, and healing that rings as true as Dear Zoe. In Tess, a girl on the verge of womanhood, Beard has crafted a pitch-perfect narrator and a debut novel of rare power and grace that will remain with readers long after the book is put down.

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Viking Adult, 2005-03-24. Hardcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. Brand new, but small piece is missing from the spine of the dust jacket and a remainder mark
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Details

  • Title Dear Zoe
  • Author Beard, Philip
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking Adult, New York
  • Date 2005-03-24
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SKU1031504
  • ISBN 9780670034017 / 0670034010
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 5.8 x 0.81 in (21.74 x 14.73 x 2.06 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1000
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004057173
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Philip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s 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 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. 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: “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.”