{"product_id":"manhattan-loverboy-paperback-by-arthur-nersesian","title":"Manhattan Loverboy Paperback by Arthur Nersesian","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eAkashic Books, Ltd.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2000-07-04)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e203\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781888451092\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eManhattan Loverboy (MLB) \u003ci\u003eis paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Named \"Best Indie Novel of 2000” by the \u003ci\u003eMontreal Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n—Named “Best Book for the Beach, Summer 2000.”  by \u003ci\u003eJane Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“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.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“\u003ci\u003eMLB\u003c\/i\u003e sits somewhere between Kafka, DeLillo, and Lovecraft—a terribly frightening, funny, and all too possible place.” —\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA selection of the Akashic Urban Surreal Series.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNersesian’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Fuck-Up,\u003c\/i\u003e is now an underground classic, a thriller with a literary soul set in the pre-chic Lower East Side. Nersesian’s brilliant follow-up novel, \u003ci\u003eManhattan Loverboy (MLB),\u003c\/i\u003e is paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism. Updating the picaresque chronicles in L. Frank Baum’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e and Kafka’s \u003ci\u003eThe Trial, MLB\u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of an orphan whose only known background is that of the city itself, a scaffold-covered grid sewn together with “Do Not Cross” tape. In this overly suspicious masterpiece, love is expressed through corrective surgery, and families meet across boardroom tables. At each unsignaled turn of the narrative track, Nersesian’s Man-Boy protagonist, Joseph Ngm, must look outside of his own hollow corpus for answers to questions as disparate as “What is my true ethnicity?” “Why are there no vowels in my name?” and “Why am I being toyed with by a corporate scion?” Throughout, Joe dimly discerns that his path has been mapped by someone other than himself.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRaised by mysterious and cold adoptive parents, Joe Ngm searches through history books and \u003ci\u003eTalmud\u003c\/i\u003eic scriptures for answers. Finding no resolution in an errant sojourn to an Israeli kibbutz, he seizes life’s reins and returns home, proclaiming his new identity through a name change. “In New York, I found myself: I was a man without a consonant—Joey A-e-i-o-u.” While nurturing his new self, the pudgy protagonist is suddenly awarded an unsolicited graduate fellowship at Columbia University. But the fellowship is yanked away just as quickly by unseen powers. Tracing this defunding to a rhombus-shaped citadel on Wall Street, Little Joseph breaks out of his hermitude to challenge the man behind the disappearing funds: Andrew Whitlock. In Joe Aeiou’s haphazard confrontation with the lugubrious CEO of Whitlock Incorporated, he succeeds in falling through the Looking Glass. From that moment on, the modern-day warlord sets his sites on retribution, while from inside a plate-glass skyscraper, Joe falls into “adversarial polarity,” something strangely like love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eARTHUR NERSESIAN\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books, including the cult-classic national bestseller\u003ci\u003e The Fuck-Up \u003c\/i\u003e(more than 100,000 copies sold), \u003ci\u003eSuicide Casanova, Manhattan Loverboy, East Village Tetralogy,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMesopotamia\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a native New Yorker who runs a writing workshop in the East Village and can be reached on Facebook. 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