- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (Nov 15 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1551521970
- ISBN-13: 978-1551521978
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #140,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Zed is a tale to be pondered by all those who wield power over the vulnerable. McCLung's plot twists and images wrestle the emotions before the intellect can pin them down, but when her message at last emerges from the blood and bedlam the effect is devasting: Terror begins at home. Then it grows.
—The Globe and Mail (Globe & Mail )
One of the best books of 2006: a piercent lament for all kids who are ill-used by their keepers. One of the top 100 books of 2006.
—The Globe and Mail (Globe and Mail )
The combination of near future dystopia and murder mystery means that one is drawn relentlessly along toward a conclusion which, even if it doesn't seem completely justified, is fitting for such a vivid and explosive book.
—Monday Magazine (Monday Magazine )
A humorous, but disturbing read.
—The Vancouver Sun (The Vancouver Sun )
A masterfully written first novel.... Zed, both the book and protagonist, is truly original ... the definition of provocative, if you can handle it.
—Zoe Whittall, NOW Magazine (Zoe Whittall Now Magazine )
—The Globe and Mail (Globe & Mail )
One of the best books of 2006: a piercent lament for all kids who are ill-used by their keepers. One of the top 100 books of 2006.
—The Globe and Mail (Globe and Mail )
The combination of near future dystopia and murder mystery means that one is drawn relentlessly along toward a conclusion which, even if it doesn't seem completely justified, is fitting for such a vivid and explosive book.
—Monday Magazine (Monday Magazine )
A humorous, but disturbing read.
—The Vancouver Sun (The Vancouver Sun )
A masterfully written first novel.... Zed, both the book and protagonist, is truly original ... the definition of provocative, if you can handle it.
—Zoe Whittall, NOW Magazine (Zoe Whittall Now Magazine )
Book Description
Zed is having a bad day. She's twelve and there's someone around who's killing kids, which she doesn't have time for. Today, she's already knifed a rapist, traded with half the drunks and addicts in town, talked to the dead, bargained with a sociopath, and extracted crucial information from a mental patient—and she hasn't even left the building.
Welcome to what Whitbread Prize winner Lindsay Clarke has called "a nightmare world which I am trying to escape, but cannot. "Welcome to the Tower, an urban development project no city wants to lay claim to; a place to steer clear of if at all possible, but if you can't, you'll fit right in.
Zed is a vivid, claustrophobic, at times nightmarish novel about madness, survival, and crumbling institutions; it is Moby Dick set in the squalor of an inner city, where rules are abandoned, and it's every man (and young girl) for him or herself. In the spirit of J.G. Ballard's High Rise or Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory, Zed depicts a frenzied underworld; it is a novel of verve and feverish, expansive imagination.
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Science Fiction Book of the Year Award, 2006
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5.0 out of 5 stars
It's funny, it's very evil and it's the best read this year,
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This review is from: Zed (Paperback)
There are certain things that shouldn't be funny - like having communities betting on children riding mind-blown adults like racehorses (including whips), or fighting over what's in the pockets of dead people - but this writer makes the unthinkable the tragically humorous. The main character Zed, probably isn't as tough as she thinks she is, but she carries it off with such determination that you find yourself rooting for the relative sane 12 year old girl in a concentrated building of junkies, sex offenders and sociopaths. And while the book has more language than Deadwood (a mightly accomplishment), and more violence than Mad Max it is a story about hope and survival against all odds. And behind the grim humour is a struggle that many who faced adversity have faced: what is more important - my self respect/identity or my survival? It is a book I have already read twice, and it makes you want to read every page. It is laugh out loud funny but in ways that you will never want to explain to your mother. But more important, it moves and stretches you in ways that you never dream of when you pick up the book. I think the worst was when I stopped halfway and said to myself: "This is hell...and I like it here."
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best-kept secret in the grimepunk subgenre,
By Abe (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zed (Paperback)
4/5 Best-kept secret in the grimepunk subgenre. Fairly rough and bleak stuff; not for the delicate.
5.0 out of 5 stars
shocking,
This review is from: Zed (Paperback)
The best thing about this book is how shocking it is, and it isn't easy to be shocked these days. The story is unbelievable, but written like it's inevitable. I've already read it three times. You won't regret reading this, it's the best time I've spent in ages! Two things: 1. it should be a movie and 2. there needs to be a sequel. I want to know where Zed and Ivy end up next!
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