The Sacrificial Circumcision Of The Bronx

Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354607
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated follow-up to The Swing Voter of Staten Island, and the second in Nersesian's series of novels offering an alternative history of New York. Robert Moses was reponsible for creating contemporary New York's infrastructure, but he did so at the cost of many neighbourhoods. In this novel, Moses has looted his brother's share of the family fortune and set in motion a chain of events that will decimate his life. His brother's rage metamorphoses into an act of terrorism against a brother and city he once cherished.

Author : Maggie Estep
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 193335481X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice Fantastic written by Maggie Estep and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice turns to her half sister when things go wrong, and they discover an awful secret their mother has been keeping.

Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617758388
Total Pages : 1422 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Five Books of (Robert) Moses written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic, playful, brutal, sweeping, and always entertaining reimagining of New York City history, presaging today's political tyranny. "A postmodern masterwork that outdoes Pynchon in eccentricity--and electricity, with all its dazzling prose." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred review "A masterwork of modern speculative adventure." --Rain Taxi Review of Books "Mr. Nersesian's work is a tale of extremes. The finished product weighs more than 4 pounds. If he stacked all his manuscript pages since he began the book back in 1993 it would stand 6 feet tall, a shade taller than himself, Mr. Nersesian says...Main characters include a fictionalized Robert Moses, the powerful public official who reshaped New York City and its environs, and his brother Paul, an electrical engineer. A difficult relationship between the two has dire consequences. There are also pop-culture favorites from the period, including psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary; urbanologist Jane Jacobs, and poet Allen Ginsberg. All are intended to show readers how the value of culture erodes in an isolated world." --Wall Street Journal "Arthur Nersesian is the Bard of Lower East Side Manhattan...He knows every street corner, every bar, store, book stall, and even the famous 100-year-old Russian shvitz on 10th Street. Nobody does it better. Not Don DeLillo, not Richard Price, and not William Burroughs." --On the Seawall "A sprawling, engrossing Pentateuch of an alternate New York City...Nersesian's binge-worthy odyssey is a singularly wild ride." --Publishers Weekly "Nersesian is one of my favorite New York authors; this tome is one to lose yourself in." --Bob Odenkirk, actor, Breaking Bad After a domestic terrorist unleashes a dirty bomb in Manhattan in 1970, making the borough uninhabitable, FBI agent Uli Sarkisian finds himself in a world that is suddenly unrecognizable as the United States is faced with its greatest immigration crisis ever: finding housing for millions of its own citizens. The federal government hastily retrofits an abandoned military installation in the Nevada desert, vast in size. Despite the government's best intentions, as the military pulls out of "Rescue City," the residents are increasingly left to their own devices, and tribal warfare fuses with democracy, forming a frightening evolution of the two-party system: the gangocracy. Years after the Manhattan cleanup was supposed to have been finished, Uli travels through this bizarre new New York City, where he is forced to reckon with his past, while desperately trying to get out alive. The Five Books of (Robert) Moses alternates between the outrageous present of Rescue City and earlier in the twentieth century, detailing the events leading up to the destruction of Manhattan. We simultaneously follow legendary urban planner Robert Moses through his early years and are introduced to his equally ambitious older brother Paul, a brilliant electrical engineer whose jealousy toward Robert and anger at the devastation caused by the man's "urban renewal" projects lead to a dire outcome. Arthur Nersesian's most important work to date examines the political chaos of today's world through the lens of the past. Fictional versions of real historical figures populate the pages, from major politicians and downtown drag queens to notorious revolutionaries and obscure poets.

Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354615
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swing Voter of Staten Island written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
ISBN 13 : 1891241397
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gladyss of the Hunt written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A grizzled veteran detective and his young rookie sidekick hunt a serial killer in post-9/11 New York City"--

Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070847
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mesopotamia written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thoroughly entertaining, with an offbeat sense of humor . . . There’s a solid mystery here, underneath the goofiness” (Booklist). Things have not been going well for journalist Sandy Bloomgarten. Her job went down the drain and her marriage quickly followed. After a lengthy bender, she awakens one morning to the stark realization that she is flat broke. Nonetheless, she’s still a crack reporter, and when a tabloid offers her a freelance assignment in Memphis—just a stone’s throw from her childhood home in Mesopotamia, Tennessee—she takes it. Though sent there for one story, she winds up tracking down another: someone is killing Elvis impersonators who perform at the annual Sing-the-King festival. The few available clues lead her to several unlikely characters: a cheating local minister constantly on the make, a strange band of misfits who only cover Elvis tunes, and a small-town private eye who blew himself up along with his crystal meth lab. As Sandy’s investigation closes, she realizes that she is sitting on what could be the story of the century. The only problem is she can never reveal what she has found . . . “The immortal shadow of Elvis Presley gyrates wildly through this satiric exploration of America’s fascination with tabloid journalism.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671027638
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fuck Up written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doesn't the title say it all? After a series of set-backs, an unnamed slacker pretends to be gay to get a job which launches him on a darkly hilarious odyssey through New York City grit.

Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fuck-up written by Arthur Nersesian and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjures up exact names, specific establishments, and precise addresses of an almost forgotten city.. From the St Mark's Theatre to Caramba on Broadway to the missions on the Bowery, Nersesian's careful and affectionate historicism has distilled and preserved a moment overlooked by and unimaginable to Ellis, McInerney and the other pop chroniclers of the era.

Author : E. M. Loeb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737161929
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood Sacrifice Complex written by E. M. Loeb and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of Loeb's 1923 book, including maps.

Author : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780841909342
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Jewish Experience written by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: