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Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul (2008, Hardcover) - Brand New
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- ISBN
- 9780151014842
- EAN
- 9780151014842
- Book Title
- Lady Lazarus
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 27.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0151014841
ISBN-13
9780151014842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59172447
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lady Lazarus
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-028550
Reviews
Altschul is one smart cookie and a fabulist of no little talent. Lady Lazarus is ambitious, virtuostic, epic, and worthy of the oohs and ahhs of literate rock fans... Maybe tell them it''s the Quadrophenia of books?, A sort of Gen X answer to Don DeLillo's boomer epic Underworld ; it uses alt rock as a springboard to address all of the human condition., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LADY LAZARUS "Andrew Altschul may be shinily modern—postmodern—in every other way, but he is also that ancient thing, a born storyteller capable of breaking your heart."—Elizabeth Tallent, author of Museum Pieces, At last, a term for the self-destructive celebrities that so fascinate (and dominate) American culture: Death Artists., Lady Lazarus is fun, sure, but Altschul is serious as a heart attack... A certain Seattle band is only the starting point of this smart, funny, breath-taking novel about celebrity, literature, and the elusive truth., Altschul is one smart cookie and a fabulist of no little talent. Lady Lazarus is ambitious, virtuostic, epic, and worthy of the oohs and ahhs of literate rock fans... Maybe tell them it's the Quadrophenia of books?, Some of the smartest, insightful, and flat-out funny writing about rock and roll celebrity since Neal Pollack's Never Mind the Pollacks ., Altschul is one of our great young writers, and Lady Lazarus is the proof. A poetic satire of rock and roll, and a rock and roll ode to poetry, it mirrors its heroine: smart, gorgeous, and funny as hell., ADVANCE PRAISE FORLADY LAZARUS "Andrew Altschul may be shinily modern--postmodern--in every other way, but he is also that ancient thing, a born storyteller capable of breaking your heart."--Elizabeth Tallent, author ofMuseum Pieces, Some of the smartest, insightful, and flat-out funny writing about rock and roll celebrity since Neal Pollack''s Never Mind the Pollacks ., A sort of Gen X answer to Don DeLillo''s boomer epic Underworld ; it uses alt rock as a springboard to address all of the human condition., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LADY LAZARUS "Andrew Altschul may be shinily modern--postmodern--in every other way, but he is also that ancient thing, a born storyteller capable of breaking your heart."--Elizabeth Tallent, author of Museum Pieces, If you're a fan of postmodern fiction... Altschul's debut makes an excellent addition to the canon. You should read this book., Lady Lazarus takes the idea of celebrity and turns it upside down... This debut novel reads like a rock biography but ends up questioning the importance of art in a postmodern world. , If you''re a fan of postmodern fiction... Altschul''s debut makes an excellent addition to the canon. You should read this book., In these pages Andrew Altschul conducts the wildest possible love affair with style. These pages are lit by the most seditious literary cunning... Andrew Altschul may be shinily modern - postmodern - in every other way, but he is also that ancient thing, a born storyteller capable of breaking your heart., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LADY LAZARUS "Andrew Altschul may be shinily modern-postmodern-in every other way, but he is also that ancient thing, a born storyteller capable of breaking your heart."-Elizabeth Tallent, author of Museum Pieces, Lady Lazarus is fun, sure, but Altschul is serious as a heart attack... A certain Seattle band is only the starting point of this smart, funny, breath-taking novel about celebrity, literature, and the elusive truth., A sort of Gen X answer to Don DeLillo''s boomer epic Underworld; it uses alt rock as a springboard to address all of the human condition., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LADY LAZARUS "Andrew Altschul may be shinily modern--postmodern--in every other way, but he is also that ancient thing, a born storyteller capable of breaking your heart."--Elizabeth Tallent, author of Museum Pieces --, Lady Lazarus takes the idea of celebrity and turns it upside down... This debut novel reads like a rock biography but ends up questioning the importance of art in a postmodern world. , Some of the smartest, insightful, and flat-out funny writing about rock and roll celebrity since Neal Pollack''s Never Mind the Pollacks., "Altschul playfully and humorously delivers his novel in a pseudo-documentary style while exploring the serious themes of truth, group hysteria, and the transience of human existence."--Library Journal, Entertaining and surprisingly elegant... Nimble prose and an ironic but not smart-alecky stance keep this story moving along nicely... a promising start., Lady Lazarus is a brilliant examination of the cultural pull exerted by the famous and the dead. Many ghosts haunt the pages of this gripping novel. It casts over the reader that same spell cast by the real-life stories of the talented and the doomed.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
In this sprawling debut novel, Calliope Bird Morath is the daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath, whose horrific suicide devastates the world., **DEBUT FICTION** This spectacular, sprawling debut novel tells the story of Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath--whose horrific suicide devastated the world--and his notorious wife, Penelope. The novel is narrated by both Calliope and her obsessive biographer, who follows her from her silent childhood to her first tortured, manic public statements about her father; from her highly publicized publication of a book of poetry to her mysterious disappearance; from her reappearance as the mute leader of a cultlike brigade known as The Muse to her spectacular showdown with the biographer. A disturbing and razor-sharp meditation on twenty-first-century celebrity culture, Lady Lazarus is also a funny and moving story about the age-old question of the nature of the self., **DEBUT FICTION** This spectacular, sprawling debut novel tells the story of Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath--whose horrific suicide devastated the world--and his notorious wife, Penelope. The novel is narrated by both Calliope and her obsessive biographer, who follows her from her silent childhood to her first tortured, manic public statements about her father; from her highly publicized publication of a book of poetry to her mysterious disappearance; from her reappearance as the mute leader of a cultlike brigade known as The Muse to her spectacular showdown with the biographer. A disturbing and razor-sharp meditation on twenty-first-century celebrity culture, "Lady Lazarus" is also a funny and moving story about the age-old question of the nature of the self.
LC Classification Number
PS3601.L858L33 2008
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