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**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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Who in the world is Calliope Bird?
Calliope Bird Morath, that is. Poet. Celebrity. Death Artist.
Her father, Brandt Morath, was a legendary punk-rock star whose suicide devastated the world. Her mother, Penny Power, has spent a decade grieving, keeping Brandt's memory alive, and preparing Calliope for fame. Now Calliope has grown up to be a star in her own right, trading on her family name, trying to navigate the worlds of art and celebrity, academia and psychotherapy and Zen Buddhism, all while exploring the mysteries surrounding her father's life and death. Because of her own unreliable memories and the obsessive speculation of her father's fans, she comes to believe that her father might still be alive, and she abandons her own life to try and find him.
And, in turn, Calliope's obsessive biographer abandons life and family in search of Calliope. Together they chronicle her story, from her silent childhood to her first tortured public statements about her father; from her publication of a wildly popular book of poetry to her mysterious disappearance; from her return as the mute leader of a cultlike brigade known as The Muse to her last, terrifying crusade.
Ultimately, the biographer, whose own tragic history is revealed only in glimpses, clashes with Calliope's in a spectacular showdown in the Mojave Desert.
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"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, author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli
?These pages are lit by the most seditious literary cunning. This big, taunting, passionate, ambitious tale, told in a multiplicity of voices, skewers our culture's infatuation with surfaces and our habit of maiming or killing the objects of our collective infatuation: this is glittering wordplay whose bottom note is sorrow. 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
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0151014841
- ISBN 13 9780151014842
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages576
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Hardcover. First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ flawless; unclipped. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 561pp. Hardback with DJ. In his debut novel, Altschul plays with plenty of ideas at once, including Zen Buddhism, the high-minded literary theories of Lacan and Derrida, psychoanalysis, romantic and familial love, and the idea of structure itself, all juxtaposed against a backdrop of poetry and alternative rock. Lady Lazarus is the purposefully thin-guised story of the Cobain's, lavishly interwoven with poetic and personal details of the great poet Sylvia Plath's life. Think of the premise as this: Alt-grunge superstar Brandt Morath (Kurt Cobain) and his psycho-bitch, punk-rock wife Penelope "Penny" Power (Courtney Love), have a baby girl they call Calliope Bird (Francis Bean). Brandt commits suicide, Penny goes Hollywood between tantrums and drug binges, and Bird grows up to become, as Altschul said in his recent reading at St. Louis' Left Bank Books, "the World's most famous poet, which is not to be confused with the World's greatest poet." Fifty pages in, you're entertained. A hundred pages in, you're hooked, if not yet on the story itself, then on the gorgeous prose, the snarky voices, and the subtle commentaries on higher education, public relations and the power of Saturday Night Live, publishing and cover bands. It just gets deeper from there; layers and layers of meaning, each like a different color silkscreened onto this canvas. And if all that wasn't enough, it's metafiction too: he's inserted the story of an obsessed biographer into the mix, coincidentally named Andrew Altschul, who misses the point, is not as cool as he'd like to be, and endearingly blunders his way toward what is Real, what he feels, and what he knew all along--if anything, in fact, is real. Sort of a Wizard of Oz for the spirit. If you want to know the fabula, read Sylvia Plath's famous poem, "Lady Lazarus." But if you want the beauty of the greater meanings, and how these meanings weave together and complement each other; if you want something to sit with and think about for days; if you want something great enough to warrant -no, to demand- a revisit, read this book. Seller Inventory # 35014
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