Lazarus Rising a novel
Will be published approx. on 13. February 2020
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-883285-99-9 (ISBN)
Description
This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by the 92-year-old Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were every day events. One cold winter night, when the artist, Dempsey Coates, is on the way home to her loft, she encounters a several alarm blaze, water jetting every which way from hydrants and ends up offering several fireman a place to get warm. One of them is Johnny Donegan, a passionate lad who falls madly in love with her and is determined, through prayer and sheer perseverance, to make a life with Dempsey that will be unimpeded by the specter of her illness. But when the couple is finally blessed with an unexpected stroke of good luck, this very twist of fate that promises an enduring future ends up coming between them in a very tragic and unforeseen way.
Reviews / Votes
"Vividly evokes a bygone era and an earlier pandemic, while consitently finding complexity and meaning in the characters' everyday lives...thoughtful, an affecting turn in Caldwell's long career." -- Publisher's Weekly "Joe Caldwell expertly navigates the sacred depths of romance during a pandemic, and successfully dramatizes poet Dylan Thomas' passionate line that 'love is the last light spoken.'" -- Natalie Robbins, author of The Untold Story of Diana Trilling "Lazarus Rising anatomizes devotion in the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic through two lovers, tragically intimate with illness and death, who heroically embrace the body and its shocking surprises. This daring love that passes understanding finds its ideal medium in the rich yet spare prose of Caldwell's wonder-filled novel." -- Jay Rogoff, author of Loving in Truth and The Art of GravityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-883285-99-9 (9781883285999)
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Person
Joseph Caldwell is an acclaimed playwright and novelist who was awarded the Rome Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of five novels in addition to The Pig Trilogy, a humorous mystery series featuring a crime-solving pig. His most recent memoir, In the Shadow of the Bridge, was published by Delphinium in 2019. Caldwell lives in New York City.