Sway

Dark, intricate eulogy to the bloody death of Sixties idealism

Esquire

Lazar is a clever enough writer to let his juxtapositions and cross-cuts do the work: indeed his visual imagination pervades

Times Literary Supplement

Reveals Lazar to be a considerable talent

Guardian

Sway is a study of layers of manipulation and control: Manson over his credulous followers; the Stones over their audience; Anger's attempt to harness the forces of magic... Casts a haunting spell over the reader

Daily Telegraph

A new folklore removed from the heady image of the 1960s ... it's only a vision of reality but Lazar certainly makes it a believable one

Metro

Lazar's empathetic reconstructions attain a psychologically astute solidity and we are vouchsafed a glimpse of the worlds the protagonists dreamed and then cocooned themselves in

New Statesman

Zachary Lazar's superb second novel, "Sway, " reads like your parents' nightmare idea of what would happen to you if you fell under the spell of rock 'n' roll...Elegant and intricate...this brilliant novel is about what's to be found in the shadows, the most terrifying crannies of twisted souls, the darkest gleaming gems

Charles Taylor, New York Times Book Review

Scintillating intelligence... [A] brilliant portrayl of life as a legend

Margot Livesey

A coruscating, kaleidoscopic vision of the 60s, Lazar's Sway is at once an intimate re-imagining of iconic figures and an expansive meditation on an epoch that reverberates to this day. An enthralling read, shot through with flashes of edgy beauty and dark wisdom

Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl