AOT #199: Zachary Lazar Podcasts Evening’s Empire
February 1, 2010 by Rob
Filed under Book Store Events
Zachary Lazar, whose novel Sway was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, reads from and discusses his new book Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder. When he was just six years old, 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, Lazar brilliantly attempts to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to his father’s murder.
($24.99) Little, Brown ISBN #978-0-316-03768-6.
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Mr. Zazlar, I’m of three daughters of J.W Lippard who also worked and went to prison for the Southwest Land Cattle company, my dad passed away 2017 our mom passed 1982.our lives were hell due to press and others, I’m sorry for your death, to many people lost there lives money due to afew people. our parnets may they R.I.P and be together again. thre daughters are grown now but the menoris and tears never leave.