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Product Description: Grizzled homicide detective Bernie “Burnout” Farrell heads the hunt for a serial killer who is murdering call girls around Times Square. Hoping to set up a stakeout, Farrell recruits tall, blonde, ambitious rookie cop Gladyss Chronou for the investigation...read more

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9781891241390 | Verse Chorus Pr, May 20, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Grizzled homicide detective Bernie “Burnout” Farrell heads the hunt for a serial killer who is murdering call girls around Times Square.

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9781936070084 | 1 edition (Akashic Books, July 1, 2010), cover price $15.95

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Mary Bellanova's directionless life takes on new meaning after her boyfriend, Primo, suddenly drops dead, and Mary is forced to navigate the complexities and challenges of modern urban life as she searches for the best place to scatter Primo's ashes, copes with his crazy mother and ex-girlfriends, and takes in his disturbed dog. Original.

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9780671775421 | Mtv Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Mary Bellanova's directionless life takes on new meaning after her boyfriend, Primo, suddenly drops dead, and Mary is forced to navigate the complexities and challenges of modern urban life as she searches for the best place to scatter Primo's ashes, copes with his crazy mother and ex-girlfriends, and takes in his disturbed dog.

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A dark comedy of urban life features an aspiring, but incompetent, writer, who is dumped by his girlfriend, fired for asking for a raise, and stumbles into a robbery

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9780671027636 | Mtv Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A dark comedy of urban life features an aspiring, but incompetent, writer, who is dumped by his girlfriend, fired for asking for a raise, and stumbles into a robbery
9781888451030 | Akashic Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $13.00

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Product Description: “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...read more

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9781933354347, titled "The Swing Voter of Staten Island" | Akashic Books, October 1, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Praise for The Swing Voter of Staten Island:FROM KIRKUS REVIEWS:Having first dazzled Weird-Lit ultra-hipsters with The Fuck-Up in 1997, Nersesian (Unlubricated, 2004, etc.

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9781933354613, titled "The Swing Voter of Staten Island" | Akashic Books, October 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: “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.

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Product Description: “Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi.”—Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance“Nersesian is a first-rate observer of his native New York.”—Publishers Weekly"The unquestioned authority of Moses is difficult to fully grasp today -- this unimaginable, outsized character whose outrageous deeds seem the stuff of novels...read more

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9781933354606, titled "The Sacrificial Circumcision of The Bronx" | Akashic Books, October 1, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: “Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi.

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Product Description: “Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi.”—Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance“Award-winning playwright Arthur Nersesian has woven an effective dramatic form through four plays, each quite funny in its own way...read more

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9781888451856 | Akashic Books, January 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi.

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Product Description: “Sick, depraved, and heartbreaking—in other words, a great read, a great book. Suicide Casanova is erotic noir and Nersesian’s hard-boiled prose comes at you like a jailhouse confession.”—Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra ManArthur Nersesian is the bestselling cult author of The Fuck-Up, Chinese Takeout, Manhattan Is a Loverboy and dogrun...read more

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9781888451665 | Akashic Books, December 15, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: “Sick, depraved, and heartbreaking—in other words, a great read, a great book.

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Hannah, a struggling young actress living with her girlfriend in TriBeCa, New York City, believes that she has found the role of a lifetime when she discovers a lost play by a dead 1980s icon, but her coveted role comes to naught when, still struggling to deal with the collapse of the Twin Towers, she loses out to an old rival and discovers a shocking truth about the play. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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9780060734114 | Perennial, October 1, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Hannah, a struggling young actress living with her girlfriend in TriBeCa, New York City, believes that she has found the role of a lifetime when she discovers a lost play by a dead 1980s icon, but her coveted role comes to naught when, still struggling to deal with the collapse of the Twin Towers, she loses out to an old rival and discovers a shocking truth about the play.

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Masters of the mystery genre and the best of New York's literary fiction community come together in an anthology of chilling, brilliant stories each set in a distinct neighborhood of Brooklyn, featuring contributions by Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Pearl Abraham, Chris Niles, Maggie Estep, Arthur Nersesian, Sidney Offit, and others. Original.

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9781888451580 | Akashic Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Masters of the mystery genre and the best of New York's literary fiction community come together in an anthology of chilling, brilliant stories each set in a distinct neighborhood of Brooklyn, featuring contributions by Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Pearl Abraham, Chris Niles, Maggie Estep, Arthur Nersesian, Sidney Offit, and others.

Desperate for money, talented artist Orloff Trenchant agrees to take a commission to carve an unusual headstone for a recently deceased restaurateur--a Chinese takeout box--while struggling to navigate the labyrinthine web of the downtown New York art scene, struggling gallery owners, greedy dealers, activist friends, and his love for a young addict. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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9780060548827 | 1 edition (Perennial, August 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Desperate for money, talented artist Orloff Trenchant agrees to take a commission to carve an unusual headstone for a recently deceased restaurateur--a Chinese takeout box--while struggling to navigate the New York art scene.

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After accidentally killing his wife during rough sex, a wealthy attorney is labeled a sex offender and his sometimes sordid past becomes a matter of public record.

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9781888451306 | Akashic Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: After accidentally killing his wife during rough sex, a wealthy attorney is labeled a sex offender and his sometimes sordid past becomes a matter of public record.

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Product Description: Overly suspicious second novel from Arthur Nersesian, author of The Fuck-Up.Nersesian's brilliant follow-up to his underground classic, The Fuck-Up, Manhattan Loverboyis paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism...read more

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9781888451092 | Akashic Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Overly suspicious second novel from Arthur Nersesian, author of The Fuck-Up.

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