LAZARUS AND THE HURRICANE

Penguin, Toronto, 2000, 2^nd pr.  ISBN 014028539-3.  Movie Tie-In.  Trade soft cover, 360 pages including Appendix A (lyrics to the song Hurricane by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy), Appendix B (Carter case chronology), and Index.  Unread remaindered copy with light edge and cover wear, bit of wrinkling to laminate; pages lightly tanned.  ‘This astounding true story begins in a Brooklyn ghetto where a group of Canadians meet Lesra (Lazarus) Martin, a functionally illiterate child who wins their hearts.  They take Lesra to Canada, adopt and educate him.  Education opens new worlds for Lesra, and he happens upon a fateful book – The 16^th Round by Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. … Wrongly convicted for a triple murder, Carter – the famous boxer, 1970s civil rights cause celebre and subject of the Bob Dylan song, “Hurricane” – languished in prison until Lesra and his Canadian friends sought him out and reinvigorated his legal battle.  The inspiring relationship which ensued forms the heart of Lazarus and the Hurricane – a riveting legal drama, a fast-paced murder investigation and a moving account of hope and humanity and the indomitability of the human spirit.’ (from rear wrap)