The Book of Lazarus

This new novel from the contemporary American writer and poet will be published in hardcover in June 1997 by Fiction Collective Two and distributed by Northwestern University Press. Like the characters who inhabit it--acid casualties, Mafia wives, political terrorists, and the like--Richard Grossman's latest work, the second book in his American Letters Trilogy, locates itself outside of the mainstream, and has already begun to win praise from other contemporary writers and critics like Dennis Cooper, Steven Moore, and Benjamin Weissman.