The Lazarus Project

Hemon, Aleksandar

ISBN 10: 1594489882 / ISBN 13: 9781594489884

Published by Riverhead Press / Penguin, New York, 2008

About this Item

First printing of the first edition. Signed, and dated in year of publication, by Aleksandar Hemon directly on the title-page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 021840

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lazarus Project
• Publisher: Riverhead Press / Penguin, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594489882
• ISBN 13: 9781594489884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Velibor Bozovic (Author photo); Keenan
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A first full-length work by the MacArthur Award-winning author of the story collections The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man finds the murder of Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch triggering ethnic and political tensions in early twentieth-century Chicago, an event that is investigated a century later by a young writer from Eastern Europe.

About the Author

Aleksandar Hemon���is the author of���The���Lazarus Project,���Love and Obstacles,���The Question of Bruno,���Nowhere Man���and���The Book of My���Lives. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, and, most recently, a 2012 USA Fellowship. He lives in Chicago.