Zachary Lazar
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Sway
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2008
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17 editions
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I Pity the Poor Immigrant
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2014
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11 editions
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Vengeance
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2018
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2 editions
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Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder
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2009
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11 editions
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This Life
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The Apartment on Calle Uruguay
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2022
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4 editions
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Aaron, Approximately
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1998
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3 editions
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Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book
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The Literary Review: The Rat's Nest
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2011
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2 editions
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I Pity the Poor Immigrant: A Novel
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“They wanted you to grow up into some helpless combination of old person and infant. They wanted you to have a house and a family and a refrigerator and a TV, and not know how any of it worked. They wanted you to spend your life working on something that was never concrete, never anything you could see or hold in your hands, and if you didn't do that they wanted to put you in jail. Cutting down forests, poisoning the earth - it was a country driven by stupid, blind impulse. It was a country where nobody knew where their food came from or where their garbage went, they just flushed the bowl, kept eating it and throwing it away, building bombs and computers, cars and TVs, sending people off to Vietnam so they could set it on fire. It was a country that had turned against everyone he knew, cast them out like garbage, and all they could do was smile to themselves at all they'd learned and wait patiently for the fires to start here at home.”
― Sway
― Sway
“For everything man does has significance. An evil act will generally cause some disruption or negative reaction in the vast system of the Sefirot; and a good act, correct or raise things to a higher level. Each of the reactions extends out into all of the worlds and comes back into our own, back upon ourselves, in one form or another.”
― I Pity the Poor Immigrant
― I Pity the Poor Immigrant
“In writing this book, I have come to feel like a kind of immigrant in my own life, inhabiting a world of reflections and images of people I can't fully know, some of whom are dead, and I see now that my life has been shaped by this network, in ways I didn't always perceive.”
― I Pity the Poor Immigrant
― I Pity the Poor Immigrant
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