Z for Zachariah
Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smoke from a distant campfire shatters...
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Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors.
But the smoke from a distant campfire shatters Ann's solitude. Someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780020446507 (0020446500)
Publish date: 1976
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages no: 249
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Teen,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Survival,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
"Z for Zachariah" is told as the journal of a fifteen-year-old girl who is the sole survivor on her family's farm in a remote, sheltered valley. The rest of America seems to have died under a mixture of nuclear and chemical attack that has destroyed life outside the valley. She writes the journal to...
"Z for Zachariah" is told as the journal of a fifteen-year-old girl who is the sole survivor on her family's farm in a remote, sheltered valley. The rest of America seems to have died under a mixture of nuclear and chemical attack that has destroyed life outside the valley. She writes the journal to...
"Z for Zachariah" is told as the journal of a fifteen-year-old girl who is the sole survivor on her family's farm in a remote, sheltered valley. The rest of America seems to have died under a mixture of nuclear and chemical attack that has destroyed life outside the valley. She writes the journal to...
Z for Zachariah is an interesting novel. It is a post-apocalyptic tale which focuses on two characters inhabiting this new world and leaves most discussion of what has caused it by the wayside. For the most part, this works well, as the reader is in the same position as primary character Ann Burden....
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Attempted rape; dog death.Z for Zachariah was first published in 1974, and has stayed in print ever since. Robert C. O'Brien died in 1973, but his wife and one of his children completed the novel based on his notes.It's simply brilliant. The science in regards to the "meteorologica...