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REVIEW: Sway (2014)

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Carl Abrahamsson
Mar 06, 2025
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A novel about Kenneth Anger and his connections to the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Bobby Beausoleil and Charles Manson? That surely sounds to good to be true? It does. But it isn’t.

Zachary Lazar’s novel Sway does indeed exist but is such a mish mash of (mis)appropriation and audacious personality-jacking that one should tread very gently while reading …

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