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Sway

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Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Zachary Lazar's extraordinary novel, Sway — the early days of the Rolling Stones, including the romantic triangle of Brian Jones, Anita Pallenberg, and Keith Richards; the life of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers. Lazar illuminates an hour in American history when rapture found its roots in idolatrous figures and led to unprovoked and inexplicable violence.
Connecting all the stories in this novel is Bobby Beausoleil, a beautiful California boy who appeared in an Anger film and eventually joined the Manson "family." With great artistry, Lazar weaves scenes from these real lives together into a true but heightened reality, making superstars human, giving demons reality, and restoring mythic events to the scale of daily life.

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780316138949
  • Release date: January 7, 2008

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780316028363
  • Release date: January 7, 2008

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780316028363
  • File size: 506 KB
  • Release date: January 7, 2008

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Zachary Lazar's extraordinary novel, Sway — the early days of the Rolling Stones, including the romantic triangle of Brian Jones, Anita Pallenberg, and Keith Richards; the life of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers. Lazar illuminates an hour in American history when rapture found its roots in idolatrous figures and led to unprovoked and inexplicable violence.
Connecting all the stories in this novel is Bobby Beausoleil, a beautiful California boy who appeared in an Anger film and eventually joined the Manson "family." With great artistry, Lazar weaves scenes from these real lives together into a true but heightened reality, making superstars human, giving demons reality, and restoring mythic events to the scale of daily life.

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