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Original Essays | November 5, 2009

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"Nersesian's extravagantly imagined dystopia relies-as did those in Philip Roth's Plot Against America and Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union-on an alternate, counterfactual history."-The New York Times Book Review

"Combining sci-fi space/time-warping, Unabomber-style political ranting and an overall air of goose-bump paranoia, this is one turbo-charged trip. . . . A sharp, strange read: Imagine William Burroughs and Philip K. Dick sharing a needle."-Kirkus Reviews

"Brilliant."-Time Out New York

Arthur Nersesian's six previous novels (including The Fuck-Up, MTV/Pocket Books, which has sold over 100,000 copies) have focused on the tragicomedy of fin de sicle New York City. Here, in his boldest novel to date, Nersesian has broken through into a new landscape that at once fuses the real with the surreal, the psychological with the psychedelic. He lives in New York City.

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Arthur Nersesian is the author of eight novels, including the smash hit The Fuck-Up (more than 100,000 copies sold), Dogrun, Suicide Casanova (Akashic), and, most recently, The Swing Voter of Staten Island, which is the first volume in a series, The Five Books of Moses. He lives in New York City.
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ISBN:
9781933354613
Author:
Nersesian, Arthur
Publisher:
Akashic Books
Subject:
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General Fiction
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Mayors
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Politics and government
Series:
Akashic Urban Surreal
Publication Date:
October 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
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Y
Pages:
277
Dimensions:
8.00x5.20x.90 in. .55 lbs.
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