Showing Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul

HardCover Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 576 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 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 eaking your heart.-Elizabeth Tallent. author of Museum Pieces