- Published: 15 April 2016
- ISBN: 9781101873359
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $44.99
Lord Fear
A Memoir
- Published: 15 April 2016
- ISBN: 9781101873359
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $44.99
"I read this book in a sustained state of near-tears. It's a masterpiece. . . . Lord Fear is the most evocative treatment of this kind of crooked adolescent male logic that I've ever read, and the most affecting elicitation of boys' conflicted thirst for danger. . . . I read it with gratitude." --John Lingan, Chicago Tribune
"Lucas Mann's genre-bending first book, Class A . . . heralded an impressive new talent in narrative nonfiction. Mann's second book, Lord Fear, reaffirms that talent . . . [and] demonstrates that Mann is a writer who avoids reductionism, instead embracing complexity and uncertainty." --Heller McAlpin, NPR
"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." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams