Vengeance : a novel
(Book)
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Published
New York : Catapult, [2018].
ISBN
9781936787777, 1936787776
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Maywood Public Library District - Stacks | FIC LAZAR | On Shelf |
Tinley Park Public Library - Holds Area Display | FICTION LAZAR, ZACHARY | On display |
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Published
New York : Catapult, [2018].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
253 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781936787777, 1936787776
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"Zachary Lazar's powerful and important novel was inspired by a passion play, The Life of Jesus Christ, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As someone who writes "fiction, nonfiction, sometimes a hybrid of both," the narrator of Vengeance, a character much like Lazar himself, tries to accurately view a world he knows is "beyond the limits of my small understanding." In particular, he tries 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"--cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lazar, Z. (2018). Vengeance: a novel . Catapult.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lazar, Zachary. 2018. Vengeance: A Novel. Catapult.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lazar, Zachary. Vengeance: A Novel Catapult, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lazar, Zachary. Vengeance: A Novel Catapult, 2018.
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