Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder
Autor Zachary Lazaren Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 noi 2010
How did Ed Lazar, a fun-loving but meticulous accountant, become involved in a multi-million dollar real-estate scandal involving politicians and Mafia figures? How much did he know about his colleagues' illegal activities? Why had he chosen to testify against his former business partner, Ned Warren, Sr.? Warren was "a mystery man," according to60 Minutes, widely known as "the Godfather of land fraud." The day before Ed Lazar was scheduled to appear in front of a grand jury he was killed in a "gangland-style murder," as reported by Walter Cronkite on theCBS Evening News. Four hundred mourners attended a memorial service for him the next day.Evening's Empireis based on archival research and interviews--introducing a cast of characters as various as Senator Barry Goldwater and Cesar Romero--and is clarified by scenes imagined in the context of this evidence. It is a singular and haunting story of American ambition and its tragic cost.
Of Zachary Lazar's previous book,Sway, the reviewer forThe New York Times Book Reviewwrote, "This brilliant novel is about what's to be found in the shadows." The same can be said ofEvening's Empire'strue story, but here the shadows are very close to home.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316037693
ISBN-10: 0316037699
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316037699
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
"An
incandescent
masterpiece.
.
.
.
Lazar
has
managed
an
amazing
feat--to
evoke
both
Joan
Didion's
fierce
intelligence
and
Truman
Capote's
eerie
ability
to
enter
into
the
unknown."—Nick
Flynn,
author
ofAnother
Bullshit
Night
in
Suck
City
"Evening's Empireis a fascinating take on a time and a place, built from the inside out by a conspicuously interested party, as entertaining and evocative as could be, like a Scorsese movie, only richer, more thrilling for the memoir-like underpinnings."—Frederick Barthelme, author ofDoubledown
"Zachary Lazar has written a gripping book of unexpected beauty. InEvening's Empire,he remorselessly examines the ambiguous nature of both the shady deal and the good life. His analytic impulses soar with breathtaking imaginative leaps."—Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance
"Evening's Empireis a remarkable work of non-fiction in which reporting and imaginative empathy combine. Lazar's story of the murder of his father is spooky, sharply-focused, loving, beautiful, and richly redolent of a recent America now vanished into the past."—Ian Frazier, author of Family
"AlthoughEvening's Empireis categorized as both memoir and true crime, much of the book reads as a novel. . . .The multiplication of Warren's intrigues and a cumulative sense of doom supply its narrative drive."—Laura Miller,Salon.com
"Reveals a writer with emotional heft, tight prose, and searing insights into the complexities of a criminal world that must have looked pretty harmless--until it suddenly wasn't."—Michael Miller,BookForum
"The style is gorgeous--understated, precise, atmospheric. Like a pointillist painter, Lazar gives us vivid dots that are all the more powerful because we have to do the work or connecting them."—Joan Wickersham,The Los Angeles Times
"Remarkable...a brave book, a project that promised to pay off its author in pain....via his effort [he] achieves a literary catharsis."—John Anderson,Newsday
"A brilliantly conceived, genre-bending story that features taut, exquisite prose."—Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker
"Evening's Empireis an artful exercise in reportorial chiaroscuro."—Amanda Heller,Boston Globe
"Evening's Empireis a fascinating take on a time and a place, built from the inside out by a conspicuously interested party, as entertaining and evocative as could be, like a Scorsese movie, only richer, more thrilling for the memoir-like underpinnings."—Frederick Barthelme, author ofDoubledown
"Zachary Lazar has written a gripping book of unexpected beauty. InEvening's Empire,he remorselessly examines the ambiguous nature of both the shady deal and the good life. His analytic impulses soar with breathtaking imaginative leaps."—Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance
"Evening's Empireis a remarkable work of non-fiction in which reporting and imaginative empathy combine. Lazar's story of the murder of his father is spooky, sharply-focused, loving, beautiful, and richly redolent of a recent America now vanished into the past."—Ian Frazier, author of Family
"AlthoughEvening's Empireis categorized as both memoir and true crime, much of the book reads as a novel. . . .The multiplication of Warren's intrigues and a cumulative sense of doom supply its narrative drive."—Laura Miller,Salon.com
"Reveals a writer with emotional heft, tight prose, and searing insights into the complexities of a criminal world that must have looked pretty harmless--until it suddenly wasn't."—Michael Miller,BookForum
"The style is gorgeous--understated, precise, atmospheric. Like a pointillist painter, Lazar gives us vivid dots that are all the more powerful because we have to do the work or connecting them."—Joan Wickersham,The Los Angeles Times
"Remarkable...a brave book, a project that promised to pay off its author in pain....via his effort [he] achieves a literary catharsis."—John Anderson,Newsday
"A brilliantly conceived, genre-bending story that features taut, exquisite prose."—Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker
"Evening's Empireis an artful exercise in reportorial chiaroscuro."—Amanda Heller,Boston Globe