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Author:

Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-

Title:

The Lazarus project / Aleksandar Hemon ; with photographs by Velibor Božović and from the Chicago Historical Society.

Publisher:

Riverhead Books,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Averbuch, Lazarus,--d. 1908--Fiction.
Murder--Chicago--Chicago--Fiction.
Immigrants--Chicago--Chicago--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

Božović, Velibor.
Chicago History Museum.

Summary:

On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police. When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered him what he said was an important letter. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. When Shippy released a statement casting Averbuch as a would-be anarchist assassin and agent of foreign political operatives, he all but set off a city and a country already simmering with ethnic and political tensions. Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer in Chicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomes obsessed with Lazarus story--what really happened, and why?--From publisher description.

ISBN:

1594489882
9781594489884

OCLC:

(OCoLC)183267842

LCCN:

2008006834

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

ZBPE245 -- Norelius Community Library (Denison)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

RNPC397 -- Mary J. Barnett Memorial Library (Guthrie Center)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)