Lady Lazarus - Rilegato

Altschul, Andrew Foster

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0151014841 ISBN 13: 9780151014842

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

Riassunto

**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.

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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

L'autore

ANDREW FOSTER ALTSCHUL is a Jones Lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Fence, Swink, StoryQuarterly, One Story and other journals, as well as the anthologies Best New American Voices 2006 and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007. He lives in San Francisco.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0151014841
• ISBN 13: 9780151014842
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 561