Lady Lazarus (Signed First Edition)

Andrew Foster Altschul

ISBN 10: 0151014841 / ISBN 13: 9780151014842

Published by Harcourt, New York, 2008

About this Item

New York: Harcourt, 2008. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy, never opened. Smoke-free shop. Shipped in well-padded box. Signed by author on title page (name only).

Seller Inventory # 05-2012-135

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lady Lazarus (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Harcourt, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151014841
• ISBN 13: 9780151014842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Iowa Writers Workshop

About this title

Synopsis

**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.

About the Author

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.