The Book of Lazarus

GROSSMAN, Richard

ISBN 10: 1573660299 / ISBN 13: 9781573660297

Published by FC2, 1997

signed by Grossman on half-title page, tHC with jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean black boards with bright red titles, jacket is clean, mildly edge worn and lightly shelf worn on back. Seller Inventory # 127692

Synopsis:

The death of Mitchell O'Banion, a former political terrorist with family ties to organized crime, brings together a bizarre lot of ex-anarchists whose paths have crossed from the sixties to the present

From the Publisher: The Book of Lazarus is as much a novel about the O'Banion family as it is a scrapbook of the dead--murder victims, to be exact. The death of Mitchell O'Banion, a.k.a. Mitchell Finkelstein, a former political terrorist with family ties to organized crime, brings together a bizarre lot of ex-anarchists whose paths have criss-crossed from the heady days of the sixties to the present. In the middle of it all is Emma O'Banion, who has not seen her father Mitchell in four years. As Emma uncovers the story of her father's life and death, she discovers the vast fortune he has left behind, and a frightening family history is unfolded.

Surrounding this fictional core is another world, one in which Grossman creates visual and formal challenges for his readers while he unearths the stories of the dead and insane. Filled with poetry and aphorisms as well as photographs and handwritten notes from the grave, The Book of Lazarus creates a new American novel, filled with all the darkness and suffering of our time while simultaneously recapturing an avant-garde formalism now missing from contemporary fiction.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Book of Lazarus
Publisher: FC2
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: HARDCOVER
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st edition.