Arthur Nersesian, Author . Akashic $25 (374p) ISBN 978-1-888451-30-6
Nersesian (Dogrun) starts this erotic thriller with a bang when rich, middle-aged lawyer Leslie Cauldwell accidentally strangles his wife during a bout of rough sex, but the novel degenerates into a long, labored account of Cauldwell's obsessive
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Arthur Nersesian, Author . Perennial $12.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-054882-7
Nersesian (The Fuck-Up; Manhattan Loverboy) weaves a heartfelt, tragicomic bohemian romance with echoes of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orloff Trenchant is the quintessential starving artist, leading a hand-to-mouth existence as he struggles to
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Arthur Nersesian, Author . Perennial $12.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-06-073411-4
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Arthur Nersesian, Author . Akashic $22.95 (271p) ISBN 978-1-933354-34-7
Nersesian has carved out his niche with novels like The Fuck Up
and Unlubricated
about New Yorkers trapped in their own ugly lives. His sixth is similarly sordid but uncharacteristically fantastical. Over the course of a week in a counterfactual...
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Arthur Nersesian, Author . Akashic $22.95 (289p) ISBN 978-1-933354-60-6
The sum is greater than the parts in Nersesian’s frustrating second of a five-novel series (after The Swing Voter of Staten Island
). A dual narrative charts the lives of Paul Moses and his infamous power broker brother, Robert: Paul follows...
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Arthur Nersesian, Akashic, $15.95 paper (225p) ISBN 978-1-936070-08-4
The immortal shadow of Elvis Presley gyrates wildly through this satiric exploration of America's fascination with tabloid journalism. Washed-up alcoholic reporter Cassandra Bloomgarten gets a career reboot when a sensational "runaway bride" case...
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Arthur Nersesian, Author MTV Books $14 (272p) ISBN 978-0-671-77542-1
When Mary Bellanova finds her live-in boyfriend, Primo, dead on the couch in her New York City apartment, she is catapulted into a manic quest for the truth about his life in this lightweight, plot-driven, downtown grunge novel. Primo was an...
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Arthur Nersesian. Dark Passage (PGW, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-891241-39-0
In this lame serial killer yarn set in New York City in 2003, from Nersesian (Mesopotamia), someone is butchering tall blonde women and arranging their body parts in odd ways. After the discovery of the killer’s third known victim (“It looked as if...
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Arthur Nersesian. Akashic, $44.95 (1,510p) ISBN 978-1-61775-499-9
Nersesian (Mesopotamia) delivers a sprawling, engrossing Pentateuch of an alternate New York City from 1980 to the present, a vibrant, violent world that bubbles with political intrigue and is controlled by gangs. A terrorist attack has rendered New
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