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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by King, A. S
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780375865862
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Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2010. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Synopsis
A.S. King is the author of the highly acclaimed Everybody Sees the Ants , a 2012 ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults, and the Edgar Award nominated, 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz . She is also the author of The Dust of 100 Dogs and the upcoming Ask the Passengers . After a decade living self-sufficiently and teaching literacy to adults in Ireland, she now lives deep in the Pennsylvania woods with her husband and children. From the Hardcover edition.
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On May 12 2018, a reader said:
Please Ignore Vera Dietz is the second novel by American author, A.S. King. We first meet Vera Dietz when she is almost eighteen, a Senior at High School and working forty hours a week as a Pizza Delivery Technician. Her ex-best friend-since-age-four, Charlie Kahn is just days dead, her mother left six years ago with the podiatrist, and the most suitable word Vera can find from her Vocab class to describe her accountant father is parsimonious.
Even if Vera is still angry about the betrayal that ended their friendship five months earlier, she misses Charlie. How can she not when a thousand copies of him fill her dead space whenever she is alone? She knows he wants her to clear his name, but she's not quite ready to do that yet.
So she distracts herself with her attractive twenty-three-year-old co-worker at Pagoda Pizza, James; and, despite her father's alcoholic history, with bottles of vodka. At school she sends out "please ignore Vera Dietz" vibes, trying to remain under the radar of one very toxic Jenny Flight and her Detentionhead loser friends, on whom she blames Charlie's defection and death.
The story of just what happened between Vera and Charlie is told through a split narrative: present day and seven years earlier, with occasional interjections by Ken Dietz (flow-charts a feature), the now-dead Charlie Kahn, and a local landmark, the Pagoda. King's plot is wholly plausible, and her characters are familiar from any American town. King touches on domestic violence, sexual perversion, and teen alcoholism and drug use.
King is skilled at portraying adolescent characters. Vera is likeable: her relationship with her father and with Charlie are a delight; her dilemmas and issues are realistic; and her strength and maturity are both surprising and gratifying. This reissue from Text Publishing has an eye-catching cover design by Imogen Stubbs. A moving and thought-provoking read.
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- Title
- Please Ignore Vera Dietz
- Author
- King, A. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0375865861
- ISBN 13
- 9780375865862
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Date Published
- 2010
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