Synopses & Reviews
Nersesians extravagantly imagined dystopia reliesas did those in Philip Roths
Plot Against America and Michael Chabons
Yiddish Policemens Unionon an alternate, counterfactual history.”
The New York Times Book ReviewCombining 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 Nersesians 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 siècle 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.
Synopsis
"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 siecle 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.
Synopsis
The paperback edition of Nersesian's exalted novel published simultaneously with the second installment in Nersesian's The Five Books of Moses series (see previous page).
Synopsis
Fiction. In the first book of The Five Books Of Moses series, Arthur Nersesian breaks into a new landscape that at once fuses the real with the surreal, the psychological with the psychedelic. THE SWING VOTER OF STATEN ISLAND takes place over the course of a week in November 1981. Uli, suffering from amnesia, finds himself on a mission but isn't quite sure what it is, who sent him, or even who he is. He ventures across the perilous wilds of New York City, through abandoned neighborhoods and burned-out battlefields, but soon awakens to the awful fact that this isn't New York City at all. He is a key player in a strange, alternate history of both his city and his country. Nersesian is the author of THE FUCK-UP, SUICIDE CASANOVA, and MANHATTAN LOVERBOY.
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.