Books by Jo Ann Beard and Complete Book Reviews

In Zanesville
In Zanesville
Jo Ann Beard, Little, Brown, $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-08447-5
Thirteen years after Beard's acclaimed essay collection, Boys of My Youth, she brings readers this smashing coming-of-age story. It's the 1970s and the novel's unnamed 14-year-old narrator is beginning high school after a summer spent in close...
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The Boys of My Youth
The Boys of My Youth
Jo Ann Beard, Author, Joann Beard, Author Little Brown and Company $22.45 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-08554-0
Moments of profundity abut glimpses of life at its most mundane in this vividly realized collage of episodes from the author's life. The 12 personal narratives collected here, five of which are reprinted from magazines, unfold more thematically than
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Festival Days
Festival Days
Jo Ann Beard. Little Brown, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-49723-7
This imaginative and precise collection shows Beard (The Boys of My Youth) at her best. The nine entries vary in scope and subject, but loss and melancholy bridge the collection. “Last Night” captures her final moments with her beloved, terminally...
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