Z for Zachariah facts for kids
Puffin Teenage Fiction cover
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| Author | Robert C. O'Brien |
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| Cover artist | Larry Rostant |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children, science fiction |
| Published | 1974 (Atheneum Books) |
| Media type | Hardback, paperback, e-book |
| Pages | 192 (276 in hardback version) |
| ISBN | 978-1-4169-3921-4 (paperback) |
Z for Zachariah is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel by Robert C. O'Brien that was published posthumously in 1974. The name Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name used by Robert Leslie Conly. After the author's death in 1973, his wife Sally M. Conly and daughter Jane Leslie Conly completed the book guided by his notes. Set in the United States, the story is in the form of a diary written from the first-person perspective of sixteen-year-old Ann Burden, who has survived a nuclear war and nerve gas through living in a small valley with a self-contained weather system.
Adaptations
Soon after the book was published it was serialised in the UK in the teenage magazine Jackie.
In February 1984, the BBC presented a film adaptation for its Play for Today series in which the setting was changed from America to Wales.
Z for Zachariah, a 2015 film adaptation of the novel premiered in January 2015 with financing from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and Material Pictures. Eschewing the central Adam/Eve theme and its deconstruction of abusive and controlling relationships, it adds a third character and involves a love triangle. It stars Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine. Craig Zobel directs from an adapted script by Nissar Modi. Filming took place on New Zealand's Banks Peninsula and in the small former coal mining town of Welch, West Virginia.
