Vengeance by Zachary Lazar
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Description In Guggenheim Fellow and John Updike Award winner Zachary Lazar's powerful new novel, Vengeance, a journalist befriends an inmate at Louisiana's Angola prison. As he attempts to unravel the truth behind the man's supposed crime, he is also confronted with his own past, and re-examines American notions of guilt and penance, racial bias, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice.
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"Tense and evocative . . . Despite its powerful social critique, Vengeance is cautious and prismatic, openly troubled by its own claims to authority." —Katy Waldman, The New YorkerAs someone who writes "fiction, nonfiction, sometimes a hybrid of both," the narrator of Vengeance, a character much like Zachary Lazar himself, tries to accurately view a world he knows is "beyond the limits of my small understanding." In particular, he is compelled to unravel the truth behind the supposed crime of an inmate he meets and befriends, Kendrick King, who is serving a life sentence at Angola for murder. As the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in King's life—paying visits to his devoted mother, his estranged young daughter and her mother, his girlfriend, his brother, and his cousin—the writer's own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the "free people" while Kendrick, who studies theology and philosophy, will never get his only wish, expressed plainly as "I just need to get out of here." The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance, racial bias, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice.Inspired by a passion play, The Life of Jesus Christ, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Vengeance, by way of vivid storytelling, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that perpetuates the incarceration crisis in our country."The state of Louisiana is the world's incarceration capital, and Zachary Lazar is a world-class novelist, who brings humility and sensitivity" to this book (Rachel Kushner).
Author Biography
Zachary Lazar is the author of four previous books, including the novel Sway, the memoir Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder, and the novel I Pity the Poor Immigrant, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the 2015 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "a writer in mid–career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence." Lazar's journalism has appeared in The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University.
Details ISBN 1936787776 ISBN-13 9781936787777 Title Vengeance Author Zachary Lazar Format Paperback Year 2018 Pages 272 Publisher Catapult GE_Item_ID:141769140; About Us
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