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Description for Proto Zoe
Paperback. Funny without knowing it and naive without being innocent, Zoe is pretty much left alone to get on with growing up. Yet the most relevant events of her youth are invariably caused by other people. This novel is about adolescence and lack of innocence. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BT; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Funny without knowing it and naive without being innocent, Zoe is pretty much left alone to get on with growing up. Yet the most relevant events of her youth are invariably caused by other people. She gains the attentions of spell-binding stranger Mr Friedmann, tries to impress Catholic celebrity (complete with signed photos) Father Raymond, comes to the attention of the Convent militia, and receives questionable guidance from her two grandmothers - one dependable and with a overriding passion for breeding horses, the other who frivolously prefers to be called Catkin. Sprinkled with hilarious observations and sinister characters, Proto Zoe ... Read more
Funny without knowing it and naive without being innocent, Zoe is pretty much left alone to get on with growing up. Yet the most relevant events of her youth are invariably caused by other people. She gains the attentions of spell-binding stranger Mr Friedmann, tries to impress Catholic celebrity (complete with signed photos) Father Raymond, comes to the attention of the Convent militia, and receives questionable guidance from her two grandmothers - one dependable and with a overriding passion for breeding horses, the other who frivolously prefers to be called Catkin. Sprinkled with hilarious observations and sinister characters, Proto Zoe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747562740
SKU
V9780747562740
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Ref
99-5
About Amanda Prantera
Amanda Prantera was born and brought up in East Anglia. She went to Italy for a brief holiday when she was twenty and has lived there ever since. She is the author of eleven novels, the most recent of which is Capri File.
Reviews for Proto Zoe
'Layered with delicious ambiguities, memorable characters and, most of all, the author's eye for the ironic and unlikely' Daily Telegraph 'These hard-edged stories raise the amusing dinner party anecdote to an art form. They are short, tricky, witty and apposite' Independent 'The entertainment value lies in Prantera's immaculate understatement ... Each episode has a polished ambivalence and a ... Read more