Synopses & Reviews
What do Gary Condit, Woody Allen, and OJ Simpson have in common with Leslie Cauldwell, protagonist of Nersesians latest offering? They are Suicide Casanovas. What compels powerful men in the prime of their professional lives to risk so much? Following the commercial success of his first three novels (including cult-classic
The Fuck-Up; over 50,000 copies in print), Nersesians new novel is a psychosexual thriller, a dramatic departure from his youthful black comedies: Humbert Humbert without the pedophile penchant, Hannibal Lechter without the appetite.
Corporate attorney Leslie Cauldwell is middle-aged, handsome, and rich, but has only a few swipes left on his mental Metrocard. During a rough sex session, he garrotes his beloved wife; now he's an officially designated "sex offender," off on a bender, looking for love in all the wrong places.
Twenty years earlier, when his office was high above the pornographic purgatory of Times Square, Leslie became involved with the adult-film star, Sky Pacifica. She needed a refuge, and he was ripe for the using. Following a brief fling, each went their own way. Two decades later, in 2001, Leslie is still working in Times Squarerecently sanitized with its ESPN Zone and MTV windowand fraught with guilt about his "accident" with his wife.
Like Jay Gatsby pursuing an erotic American dream, Leslie, with the help of a private detective, hunts down Sky Pacifica, his latter-day Daisy. Across a landscape of S&M mistresses and porn producers, from L.A. of the 80s to New York of the new millennium, we see a modern-day tale of love and loss, innocence and corruption, crime and redemption.
Arthur Nersesian is the author of The Fuck-Up, Manhattan Loverboy, and Dogrun. The former managing editor of the Portable Lower East Side, he currently lives in New York City.
Also available by Arthur Nersesian
Manhattan Loverboy
TP $13.95, 1-888451-09-2 CUSA
The Fuck-Up
TP $13.00, 1-888451-03-3 CUSA
Synopsis
A psycho-sexual thriller from the author of the smash hit,
The Fuck-Up.Synopsis
Fiction. What do Gary Condit, Woody Allen, and O.J. Simpson have in common with Leslie Cauldwell, protagonist of Nersesian's latest offering? They are Suicide Casanovas. What compels powerful men in the prime of their professional lives to risk so much? Following the commercial success of his first three novels (MANHATTAN LOVERBOY, THE FUCK-UP, and DOGRUN), Nersesian's new novel is a psychosexual thriller, a dramatic departure from his youthful black comedies. Corporate attorney Leslie Cauldwell is middle-aged, handsome, and rich, but has only a few swipes left on his mental Metrocard. During a rough sex session, he garrotes his beloved wife; now he's an officially designated "sex offender," off on a bender, looking for love in all the wrong places. Across a landscape of S&M mistresses and porn producers, we see a modern-day tale of love and loss, innocence and corruption, crime and redemption.
About the Author
Arthur Nersesian (born 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, and poet. Neresian is of Armenian and Irish descent. He was born and raised in New York City. His novels include The Fuck-up, Manhattan Loverboy, dogrun, Chinese Takeout, Suicide Casanova and Unlubricated. He has also published a collection of plays, East Village Tetralogy. He has written three books of poems and one book of plays. In 2005, Nersesian received the Anahid Literary Prize for Armenian Literature for his novel Unlubricated. Nersesian is the managing editor of the literary magazine, The Portable Lower East Side, and was an English teacher at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, in the South Bronx.