Lucas Mann. (2015). Lord Fear: A Memoir. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Lucas Mann. 2015. Lord Fear: A Memoir. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Lucas Mann, Lord Fear: A Memoir. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

Lucas Mann. Lord Fear: A Memoir. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: LUCAS MANN was born in New York City and received his MFA from the University of Iowa, where he was the Provost’s Visiting Writer in Nonfiction. He is the author of Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere, and his essays and stories have appeared in many publications, including TriQuarterly, Slate, and The Kenyon Review. He teaches writing at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Lucas Mann was only thirteen years old when his brother Josh—charismatic and ambitious, funny and sadistic, violent and vulnerable—died of a heroin overdose. Although his brief life is ultimately unknowable, Josh is both a presence and an absence in the author’s life that will not remain unclaimed. As Josh’s story is told in kaleidoscopic shards of memories assembled from interviews with his friends and family, as well as from the raw material of his journals, a revealing, startling portrait unfolds. At the same time, Mann pulls back to examine his own complicated feelings and motives for recovering memories of his brother’s life, searching for a balance between the tension of inevitability and the what ifs that beg to be asked. Through his investigation, Mann also comes to redefine his own place in a family whose narrative is bisected by the tragic loss.
 
Unstinting in its honesty, captivating in its form, and profound in its conclusions, Lord Fear more than confirms the promise of Mann’s earlier book, Class A; with it, he is poised to enter the ranks of the best young writers of his generation.

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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: "In Lord Fear, Mann folds Josh's writings in with contemplative renderings of his interviews, imbuing those conversations with the buzz and herky-jerky flow of a postmodern detective novel. The result is a nonlinear, scrapbook-style investigative memoir as redolent of the bluesy crime pursuits of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe as it is of the narcotized reveries of William Burroughs."
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   • source: Providence Journal
   • content: "Mann grasps at splinters of spasmodic speculation. His prose jabs at and probes the unknown. You can feel his own life and soul are on the line here. This is an awesome, emotionally riveting memoir."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "Mann spent nearly 10 years ferreting out this picture of his older half brother, Josh, dead of a drug overdose. Mann was much younger than his blustery, angry brother. The actions that seemed incomprehensible and abnormal to the adults in their lives are seen by the younger Mann as sometimes admirable or brave or normal but scary. Thus, amid the terror found in this book are also moments of joy. . . . Lord Fear treads carefully, but the shards on this path are ever painful."
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   • source: Jeffery Gleaves, The Paris Review (Staff Picks)
   • content: "I know when I've found a good book when it slows me down, as Lucas Mann's Lord Fear did. It's also a good sign, I find, when the book is hard to describe, as Lord Fear is. On the surface, it's a memoir about Mann's enigmatic older brother, who died of a heroin overdose when Mann was thirteen. But it's more about memory, myth-making, and desire than its plot suggests. Written mainly from the perspectives of those who knew his brother at different points in his life, the book's scenes, reconstructed from interviews, are delicately rendered and hyper–self aware; with this unflinching, fractured examination of his brother, Mann suggests that writing about and investigating any life produces infinite contradictory representations that orbit around an indefinable center. Mann is driving at how we know that unknowable thing--taking us right up to language's edge, where we watch him peer over."
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   • source: Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead
   • content: "I loved this book--an artifact of the making of memory. The prose is striking and emotional, and the excavation of the dead brother, the meaning of the life cut short, will resonate with many readers. Lord Fear is a psychological and artistic juggernaut."
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   • source: Adam Wilson, author of What's Important is Feeling
   • content: "The book's called Lord Fear, but its very existence is testament to its author's fearlessness in confronting the twined, barbed wires of guilt and grief. Lucas Mann wears many hats in this memoir--journalist, stylist, Nabokovian explorer of sense and memory--but in the end it turns out that they're all the same hat: survivor. Lucas Mann is a rare talent, and Lord Fear is that rare book which matches intellect with emotional candor, and the human condition is presented in all its nudity and terrifying nuance."
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   • source: Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh
   • content: "A searing, complexly rendered memoir that is at times an investigation of the life and death of Mann's heroin addict brother, at times a frank meditation on brotherhood. This book is made from the one his brother, a writer, never wrote, and is the book only Mann could write. A triumph."
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   • source: Joan Wickersham, author of The News from Spain and The Suicide Index
   • content: "This is a disturbing book, and a powerful one, for its honesty, its emotional precision, and most of all for Mann's ability to probe, accede to, and resist the mythologizing power of memory."
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   • source: Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
   • content: "Lord Fear isn't just a book about brothers, or addiction, or bereavement--though it is about all of these things, in beautiful and surprising ways; it's ultimately a book about one man's fierce and futile desire to fully know his own brother. This is a gorgeous examination of what it means to love someone once he's gone, what it means to love someone you wish--as Mann puts it so powerfully--could have felt better than he did."
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    • source: Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division
    • content: "Lucas Mann is the most incredible young memoirist in this country. And in Lord Fear, he'
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      May 25, 2015
      In the hands of New York author and writing teacher Mann (Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere), a chronicle of his older brother's life before it ended in a heroin overdose becomes a suspenseful, if stilted, character study. Mann both adored and feared his older half-brother, Josh, who died at age 28 when the author was 13. Josh was handsome and brilliant, a bodybuilder, a charming ladies' man, and a sadist to those he loved—his mother, his brothers, his girlfriends. By interviewing the people Josh loved and was closest to, author Mann builds the story of his brother's life through narrative reconstruction—a creative nonfiction—for a fluid account that never allows the reader to be moved. The younger brother is hungry to learn about Josh's transgressions as a way to both remember his brother and gain a kind of self-knowledge. On the one hand, his brother provided a model of manhood as a sexual being, a free spirit, and an artist; yet on the other hand, Josh was fragile and spoiled, gripped by inexplicable anxiety ("lord fear"), given to humiliate people, fond of a terrifying pet boa constrictor, and submerged in debilitating drug use in his 20s. Mann's references to the writing of Nabokov, Philip Roth, Roland Barthes, and Virginia Woolf on memory and loss lend the work an elegiac tone, but all the feeling here is cold and hard.

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      Starred review from March 1, 2015
      An ambitious, literary-minded memoir of the author's relationship with his late brother, a much older heroin addict.Mann (Writing/Univ. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere, 2013) works on a number of different levels, delivering a narrative of addiction, memory, and family dynamics; of the attempt to see someone through the eyes and different memories of other people; and of the challenges faced by a writer as he attempts to fulfill his literary ambitions. Ultimately, this is a memoir about trying to write a memoir: the challenge, the impossibility, and the catharsis. It begins at the funeral of Mann's older brother, Josh, since the author, 13 at the time, "once read a Philip Roth novel that begins over a grave." Before he's done, he will invoke Nabokov, Burroughs, Woolf, and Kincaid as literary antecedents whose inspiration has informed his own work. Unlike, say, James Frey, Mann drops his cards on the table from the start, admitting in his author's note that though the focus of the book is a real person, "it is not, however, an exact representation of his life. People's memories contradict one another, and many of the scenes are my imagined versions of the stories they told me, complete with my own subjectivity." In the book, in death, and in the memories of the author and others, Josh is larger than life, a person who "could have been a rock star so easily. Some kind of star," as a friend recalls. He was a would-be musician, a would-be writer, the lover of all sorts of gorgeous, exotic women, a troubled child from before the author's birth, and a junkie who died alone, unexpected and inexplicably, after he'd shown his family and friends he'd cleaned up. In constructing his aching, poignant narrative, Mann offers a fine meditation on fate and on how "the story of addiction is the story of memory, and how we never get it right."

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      March 15, 2015
      Mann spent nearly 10 years ferreting out this picture of his older half brother, Josh, dead of a drug overdose. Mann was much younger than his blustery, angry brother. The actions that seemed incomprehensible and abnormal to the adults in their lives are seen by the younger Mann as sometimes admirable or brave or normal but scary. Thus, amid the terror found in this book are also moments of joy. Helping Mann uncover the story of his brother's short life are his parents, his friends, his other half brother, and strangers (though friends to Josh). They feed him images he mulls overhis brother making music or being tender or gaining weight. The writing here is hesitant and questioning as Mann aims to be true to both his young self and his current self. Even so, the puzzle of the brother remains in pieces. What can this story be but fragments? Lies? The pages here are spiked with brother Josh's work: journal entries, poems, odes to determination that went nowhere. Lord Fear treads carefully, but the shards on this path are ever painful.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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