
Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Zachary Lazar's extraordinary new 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 root...
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (February 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780316113113
ISBN-13: 978-0316113113
ASIN: 0316113115
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 739398
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Lazar's "Sway" -- a fictionalized account of the activities of the Rolling Stones, Manson-orbit aspiring actor/musician Bobby Beausoleil, and underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger from roughly 1962 to 1969 -- is uneven but compelling. The three stories...
rous 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."One hypnotic tone poem.... It is not the now-historic acts of violence that make Sway so riveting, but its vivid character portraits and decadent, muzzy atmosphere, all rendered with the heightened sensory awareness associated with drugs and paranoia. The near miniaturist precision with which he describes Keith Richards's attempts to master his guitar, Brian Jones's acid trips and Anger's obsessive desire for Beausoleil bring this large-scale tableau into stunning relief." --Liz Brown, Time Out New York