Lady Lazarus Author:Andrew Foster Altschul **DEBUT FICTION** This spectacular, sprawling debut novel tells the story of Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath?whose horrific suicide devastated the world?and his notorious wife, Penelope. — The novel is narrated by both Calliope and her obsessive biographer, who follows her from her silent childhood to her... more » first tortured, manic public statements about her father; from her highly publicized publication of a book of poetry to her mysterious disappearance; from her reappearance as the mute leader of a cultlike brigade known as The Muse to her spectacular showdown with the biographer.
A disturbing and razor-sharp meditation on twenty-first-century celebrity culture, Lady Lazarus is also a funny and moving story about the age-old question of the nature of the self. (03/15/2008)« less