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The Zero

Jess Walter

Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.51 | 2379 Users | 365 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Zero
ISBN:	0060898658 (ISBN13: 9780060898656)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist (2006)

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What's left of a place when you take the ground away? Answer: The Zero. Brian Remy has no idea how he got here. It's been only five days since his city was attacked, and Remy is experiencing gaps in his life--as if he were a stone skipping across water. He has a self-inflicted gunshot wound he doesn't remember inflicting. His son wears a black armband and refuses to acknowledge that Remy is still alive. He seems to be going blind. He has a beautiful new girlfriend whose name he doesn't know. And his old partner in the police department, who may well be the only person crazier than Remy, has just gotten his picture on a box of First Responder cereal. And these are the good things in Brian Remy's life. While smoke still hangs over the city, Remy is recruited by a mysterious government agency that is assigned to gather all of the paper that was scattered in the attacks. As he slowly begins to realize that he's working for a shadowy operation, Remy stumbles across a dangerous plot, and soon realizes he's got to track down the most elusive target of them all--himself. And the only way to do that is to return to that place where everything started falling apart.

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Title	:	The Zero
Author	:	Jess Walter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	August 29th 2006 by Harper (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Novels. Suspense. Contemporary

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So, heres my dilemma. Jess Walter is one of my favorite contemporary authors. This is based on Citizen Vince and The Financial Lives of the Poets, which I read and devoured with glee. His wickedly dark humor resonates with me and therefore I greatly anticipated reading this book. Sadly, The Zero did not live up to my expectations. The protagonist, Brian Remy, has these gaps of memory, possibly due to his having shot himself in the head in the beginning of the book. He forgets how he got where he

Brian Remy is a New York City cop. He was on the scene when the towers collapsed on 9/11, narrowly escaping himself (even though his son is telling people he died). And Remy has just shot himself in the head but he can't remember whether he did it on purpose, or accidentally. Indeed, he can't remember much of anything he sort of "wakes up" between gaps in his memory and has to piece together what he's been up to. Conscious Remy is good, "unconscious," off-the-page Remy is bad.So the story

Political satire isnt Jess Walters strong suit. The characters in this story are cartoonish mayors, police investigators and spies, none of whom are believable. In addition, Walter pokes fun at the post-911 authorities while ignoring that every one of us had become swept up in rampant patriotism and paranoia at the time. Remember being inspired by some of Bushs overly simplistic speeches? Remember using gloves to open your mail? I suppose by the time Walter wrote this novel, we had all calmed

Tapping into my intellectual observer, I found much to admire about his writing, the rich and complex way he told the story, and his insight into the experience of a post-terrorism world. His characters were interesting and the wit piercing. The plot twist of the sisters were poignant (though kinda obvious.) Some of the ways he "painted the scenes" with his words were phenomenal.While his story-telling device was unique and I can see why he chose it, I had a hard time following the story. I'm

I'm intrigued. I began reading this last night, and it is described as a dark, comic satire on 9/11. The other book I read by Jess Walter, "The Financial Lives of the Poets," was very sweet -- funny, poignant, well-written. It reminded me of Nick Hornby and Tom Perotta, but a bit deeper. So, I'm intrigued by this book because it's definitely much darker. And it's a thriller. Different genre, very different tone. And so far so good...--Eh. It's hard to say what I thought of this book. I finished

It's a good book with some problems, admittedly. It contains passages that are fantastic and really display Walter's talent as a writer and dialogue that shows his talent for creating memorable characters. Even passages which the reader will likely not remember or pay too much attention to do an excellent job of dropping the reader (and Remy) into the middle of a scene and almost visually drawing the setting around the character. These are its strengths, and it makes it a fast, immersive, and

I'm intrigued. I began reading this last night, and it is described as a dark, comic satire on 9/11. The other book I read by Jess Walter, "The Financial Lives of the Poets," was very sweet -- funny, poignant, well-written. It reminded me of Nick Hornby and Tom Perotta, but a bit deeper. So, I'm intrigued by this book because it's definitely much darker. And it's a thriller. Different genre, very different tone. And so far so good...--Eh. It's hard to say what I thought of this book. I finished