PRAISE FOR LADY LAZARUS- 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 "Astounding... You've never read anything quite like it." - San Francisco magazine "At last, a term for the self-destructive celebrities that so fascinate (and dominate) American culture: Death Artists." - Sacramento News & Review "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." - Uptown "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?" - Galleycat "Some of the smartest, insightful, and flat-out funny writing about rock and roll celebrity since Neal Pollack's Never Mind the Pollacks." - Blurt "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 |
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