The Resource Vengeance : a novel, Zachary Lazar
Vengeance : a novel, Zachary Lazar
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The item Vengeance : a novel, Zachary Lazar represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Vengeance : a novel
- Title
- Vengeance
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Zachary Lazar
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- IDEBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lazar, Zachary
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3562.A969
- Literary form
- novels
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Louisiana State Penitentiary
- Louisiana State Penitentiary
- FICTION
- Label
- Vengeance : a novel, Zachary Lazar
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1013742919
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781936787784
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 1051729
- 9a56e6d8-e11e-422e-8189-216d47d33439
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1013742919
- Label
- Vengeance : a novel, Zachary Lazar
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1013742919
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781936787784
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 1051729
- 9a56e6d8-e11e-422e-8189-216d47d33439
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1013742919
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