Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
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Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
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Add this copy of Z for Zachariah to cart. $5.45, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Turtleback Books.
Add this copy of Z for Zachariah to cart. $5.45, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Turtleback Books.
This was a quick read. Good story but I am still trying to figure out who Zachariah was. No one in the story named that. LOL
Barri
Jan 21, 2010
Very interesting
A very good read and especially for mid-teens child. Thought-provoking.
MommySunshine
Oct 5, 2007
No, thanks
I suppose it's not entirely depressing and dismal - the first line is "I am afraid," and the last line is "I am hopeful." But it's just another one in the parade of adolescent literature that deals with catastrophe and angst. The characters are not impressive. They do not grow. The premise is interesting - all of world destroyed except for the first-person narrator and then the man who comes to the valley. But the overall feeling is one of oppression rather than freedom. I'm not looking for books to preach or to be sappy, but surely this joyless soliloquoy is not the only alternative.
