Sway by Lazar, Zachary

Sway (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316113113)

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Sway by Lazar, Zachary

Sway

$21.99
Sway by Lazar, Zachary

Sway

$21.99
Format: Paperback
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Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Zachary Lazar's extraordinary novel, Sway -- the early days of the Rolling Stones, including the romantic triangle of Brian Jones, Anita Pallenberg, and Keith Richards; the life of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers. Lazar illuminates an hour in American history when rapture found its roots in idolatrous figures and led to unprovoked and inexplicable violence.

Connecting all the stories in this novel is Bobby Beausoleil, a beautiful California boy who appeared in an Anger film and eventually joined the Manson "family." With great artistry, Lazar weaves scenes from these real lives together into a true but heightened reality, making superstars human, giving demons reality, and restoring mythic events to the scale of daily life.

Author: Zachary Lazar
ISBN-10: 0316113115
ISBN-13: 9780316113113
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Award: Discover Great New Writers - Third Place

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/15/2009 pg. 20
By Zachary Lazar
By Zachary Lazar
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Zachary Lazar's previous novel, Sway (Little, Brown), was chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times, and his memoir, Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder (Little, Brown), was named a Best Book of 2009 in the Chicago Tribune. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. He lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University.

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