Daz 4 Zoe [Import] [Hardcover]

Robert Swindells (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (November 22, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0241128986
• ISBN-13: 978-0241128985
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 0.6 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Unique, Engrossing Novel, November 7, 2003

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Mary Louise (Brampton, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Daz 4 Zoe (Plus) (Paperback)

Daz 4 Zoe portrapys a dystopian future where London is a walled city barricaded against the poor, homeless, and hungry. The story is a split first person narrative of Daz,a boy who lives rough, and Zoe, an upper class girl quite ignorant of how people live outside the city. Daz's narrative is initially hard to read because it is in an uneducated teen dialect, but you do get used to it. Even though this is speculative fiction, it's not too hard to imagine this future possiblity. Of course Daz and Zoe meet, that's what starts the conflict, so you have both Daz and Zoe learning about their very different worlds.

It may be a challenge at first to underdstand Daz's dialect at first, but it's well worth the effort!