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This story of Jesus's childhood best friend is “a thrilling meta-novel” and one of Kirkus Reviews'Best Books of the Year (Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette). Like most successful men in their early thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He is busy organizing his sisters, his business, and his women. Life is mostly good until far away in Galilee, without warning, his childhood best friend, Jesus, turns water into wine. Immediately, Lazarus falls ill. And with each subsequent miracle his health deteriorates: a nasty cough develops into an alarming array of afflictions unresponsive to the usual remedies. His sisters think Jesus can help, but the two men haven't spoken for years. Lazarus is willing to try anything to make himself well, anything, that is, except ask Jesus for help. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus rises. This part we all know. But Lazarus is about to discover that returning from the dead isn't easy at all... An ingeniously funny and moving novel disguised as biography, Lazarus Is Dead recounts the story of a great friendship lost and regained that unabashedly turns convention on its head. Richard Beard draws on biblical sources, histori

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Author

Richard Beard

Publisher

Europa Editions, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609450809

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.7 / 5 (191 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14