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PRAISE FOR LADY LAZARUS

"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."
- ANDREW SEAN GREER

"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."- Minneapolis Star Tribune

"At last, a term for the self-destructive celebrities that so fascinate (and dominate) American culture: Death Artists."
- Sacramento News & Review

"If you're a fan of postmodern fiction... Altschul's debut makes an excellent addition to the canon. You should read this book."
- PopMatters

"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." - ELIZABETH TALLENT

"Altschul writes in gorgeous, fluid prose with a slyly ironic tone."
- Palo Alto Weekly

"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. "
- BlogCritics Magazine

"Lady Lazarus brilliantly examines the cultural allure of the famous 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." - HEIDI JULAVITS