Lord Fear
  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781101873359
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $38.00

Lord Fear

A Memoir

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From the author of the widely praised Class A--a memoir that investigates the life and death of his enigmatic brother, who died of a heroin overdose, and compels him to redefine his own place in a family whose narrative is bisected by the tragic loss.

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.
  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781101873359
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for Lord Fear

"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