About the book, from the publisher:When he was just six years old, Zachary Lazar's father, Edward, was shot dead by hit men in a Phoenix, Arizona parking garage. The year was 1975, a time when, according to the Arizona Republic, "land-fraud artists roamed the state in sharp suits, gouging money from buyers and investors." How did his father fit into this world and how could his son ever truly understand the man, his time and place, and his motivations? In Evening's Empire, Zachary Lazar, whose novel Sway was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, brilliantly attempts to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to his father's murder.Watch the Evening’s Empire video, and learn more about the book and author at Zachary Lazar's website.
Zachary Lazar graduated from Brown University and received the Iowa Writer's Workshop's James Michener/Copernicus Society Award. He lives in Southampton, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey, where he holds a 2009-2010 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. Evening's Empire is his third book. He received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lazar's novel Sway is on the list of forty-six essential rock reads.
My Book, The Movie: Sway and the Page 69 Test: Sway.
The Page 69 Test: Evening's Empire.
--Marshal Zeringue
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