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THE LAZARUS PROJECT; Aleksandar Hemon / With Photographs by Velibor Bozovic
by Hemon, Aleksandar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594489882
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489884
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, tan quarter cloth with black lettering over gray boards, illustrated with a B&W frontispiece and ~ 22 photos by Velibor Bozovic, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with colored iris & Chicago cityscape lashes, 294 pages. National Book Award Finalist..as well as winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the inaugural Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.<br /> <br /> Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and as co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021). It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award <br /> <br /> The Lazarus Project reimagines the true story of the death of Lazarus Averbuch, a teenaged Jewish immigrant to Chicago who was shot and killed by a police officer in 1908.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL SIGNED COPY internally & externally! Tight, bright, clean copy in a sharp unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Synopsis
The only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Project . On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin. A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. Brik enlists his friend Rora-a war photographer from Sarajevo-to join him in retracing Averbuch's path. Through a history of pogroms and poverty, and a prism of a present-day landscape of cheap mafiosi and even cheaper prostitutes, the stories of Averbuch and Brik become inextricably intertwined, creating a truly original, provocative, and entertaining novel that confirms Aleksandar Hemon, often compared to Vladimir Nabokov, as one of the most dynamic and essential literary voices of our time. From the author of The Book of My Lives .
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8512
- Title
- THE LAZARUS PROJECT; Aleksandar Hemon / With Photographs by Velibor Bozovic
- Author
- Hemon, Aleksandar
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594489882
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489884
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Jews, crimes, Pogroms, Chicago, scapegoat, police, murder, Russia, discrimination, illustrated, photos, identity, mortality
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BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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