Dear Zoe, by Philip Beard

Dear Zoe, by Philip Beard

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 na ve, 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.
--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

The whole novel . . . rings with truth.
--The Buffalo News

Philip Beard is a recovering attorney who still practices law part time in Pittsburgh, where he lives with his wife and three daughters. His first novel, Dear Zoe, was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices Selection, and was chosen as one of the ten best first novels of 2005.

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ISBN 13	9780670034017
ISBN 10	0670034010
Title	Dear Zoe,
Author	Philip Beard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Books
Year published	2005-04-01
Number of pages	196
Prizes	Commended for Tayshas Reading 2007
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.