In Zanesville: A Novel by Jo Ann Beard (English) Paperback Book

Description: In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard "A fierce, funny, brave, and bracingly honest new novel....Every bit as poignant and powerful as The Catcher in the Rye." ---Chicago Tribune FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She flies under the radar - a sidekick, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that fudge cant be said with an English accent. Luckily, she has a best friend with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood, incidents through which a world is revealed and character is forged.In time, their friendship is tested - by their families claims on them, by a clique of popular girls who stumble upon them and by the first, startling, subversive intimations of womanhood.With dry wit and piercing observation, Jo Ann Beard shows us that in the seemingly quiet streets of Americas innumerable Zanesvilles is a world of wonders and that within the souls of the overlooked often burns something radiant. Notes Trade paperback. A new novel from the author of The Boys Of My Youth. Author Biography Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Review Masterfully wrought...downright hilarious and often hold-your-breath-and-hope-for-the-best suspenseful. The restraint with which Beard deploys moments of tension and humor make each page glimmer. - Samuel Reaves Slaton, O MagazineA fierce, funny, brave, and bracingly honest new novel... Every bit as poignant and powerful as The Catcher in the Rye. - Julia Keller, Chicago TribuneAn exuberant first novel... Beard has a knack for melding the funny and the sad, amplifying small moments into something big. - Susannah Meadows, New York TimesEpic and profound. These thoughtful, funny, awestruck, slightly peculiar girls are so endearing, so painfully true. - Karen Valby, Entertainment WeeklyA sure-handed first novel... Its impossible not to be charmed. - Yvonne Zipp, Washington PostA fresh comic voice and a talent for sharp familiarizing place-details. - Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal Review Quote PRAISE FOR IN ZANESVILLE: "A fierce, funny, brave, and bracingly honest new novel....Every bit as poignant and powerful as The Catcher in the Rye ."-- Julia Keller , Chicago Tribune Promotional "Headline" "A fierce, funny, brave, and bracingly honest new novel....Every bit as poignant and powerful as The Catcher in the Rye ." --- Chicago Tribune Details ISBN031612527X Author Jo Ann Beard Short Title IN ZANESVILLE Publisher Back Bay Books Language English ISBN-10 031612527X ISBN-13 9780316125277 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2012 Imprint Back Bay Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY FIC Pages 289 Replaces 9780316084475 Residence Ithaca, NY, US Subtitle A Novel Illustrations black & white illustrations Audience General/Trade Publication Date 2012-05-03 AU Release Date 2012-05-03 NZ Release Date 2012-05-03 US Release Date 2012-05-03 UK Release Date 2012-05-03 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137976766;

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