Lazarus rising, a novel by Joseph Caldwell
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Lazarus rising, a novel by Joseph Caldwell
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Lazarus rising
Oclc number
1224594894
Responsibility statement
a novel by Joseph Caldwell
Summary
"This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by the 92-year-old Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were every day events. One cold winter night, when the artist, Dempsey Coates, is on the way home to her loft, she encounters a several alarm blaze, water jetting every which way from hydrants, and ends up offering several fireman a place to get warm. One of them is Johnny Donegan, a passionate lad who falls madly in love with her and is determined, through prayer and sheer perseverance, to make a life with Dempsey that will be unimpeded by the specter of her illness. But when the couple is finally blessed with an unexpected stroke of good luck, this very twist of fate that promises an enduring future ends up coming between them in a very tragic and unforeseen way"."--Provided by publisher
Target audience
adult
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- Social problem fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Women artists -- Fiction
- AIDS (Disease) + Patients -- United States -- Fiction
- Fire fighters -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
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- Social problem fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Women artists -- Fiction
- AIDS (Disease) + Patients -- United States -- Fiction
- Fire fighters -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
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