Manhattan Loverboy

by Arthur Nersesian

Book Overview

--Named "Best Indie Novel of 2000" by the Montreal Mirror

--Named "Best Book for the Beach, Summer 2000." by Jane Magazine

"Part Lewis Carroll, part Franz Kafka, Nersesian leads us down a maze of false leads and dead ends . . . Joey's dilemmas are told with wit and compassion, drawing the reader into a world of paranoia and coincidence while illuminating questions of free will and destiny. Highly recommended." --Library Journal

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888451092
• ISBN13: 9781888451092
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A Wild Ride!

From start to finish this book is a wild ride. Arthur Nersesian breaks all the rules and comes out a winner. His characters in Manhattan Loverboy are far from perfect, almost warped even, yet the reader is so intrigued it's nearly impossible to put the book down. By the end of this book, I couldn't believe the twists it had taken!I'd recommend Nersesian's books to anyone who is looking for something a little different and a lot of great reading.

Deep light Reading

Neresian has the talent to create tales which are easy to swallow in a few sittings but are surprisingly loaded with character depth and strange twists and turns. This novel, like his previous works, does the same: by taking an under achiever-below avegerage character and putting them into extraordinary circumstances. It's very hard to even explore these stories without giving away some of the plot devices which make them so addictive.

paranoia reaches the level of sublime

Nersesian's narrator Joey Aeiou embodies the perfect paranoia found only in Manhattan, where overcrowding, vanity, and extreme economic imbalalance breed fear and grandiosity on a large scale. The book dispenses with the plausible and moves directly into the real--the kind of real that echoes Kurt Vonnegut, Franz Kafka, Katherine Dunn, etc. Way more than a moral tale. Plan to laugh out loud.

perfect

everything about this book is great....the story is hysterically funny....the size of the book is perfect for subway reading, which is also the perfect setting {the subway, that is}. also, its really cool that he is still doing books with akashic. very funny, crazy book!

Joey's Wild Ride

Nersesian's newest book is a fast-paced ride through the turbulent life of a grad. student with an imagination bigger than my professors' egos. I identified with Joey's fanatical behavior when his funding source pulled his grant, but the events that unfloded afterward could have only happened in NYC. Nersesian's quick wit and dark satire weave a fantastic story about what can happen when we try too hard to believe everything we think we see. Without question, I recommend this book as a welcome relief from the familiar ennui of graduate studies.