The Horn Book Magazine, November 1st, 1999
Robert C. O'Brien Z for Zachariah
Recorded Books 1999 5 cass. ISBN 0-7887-2974-8 46.00 Read by Christina Moore.
Several things make this novel an ideal selection for audiobook production: the gripping premise upon which the narrative itself rests, the wealth of detail that makes it almost impossible for readers or listeners to escape picturing themselves caught in the landscape of postnuclear catastrophe, and the drama created by the present-tense device of journal writing. This last is also what makes it a challenge to the narrator, for the almost uninterrupted flow of the young heroine's...
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