Arthur Nersesian

Manhattan Loverboy (2000)

All right, well one should read a whole book before one opens one's big fat mouth.So yes, in my preliminary review I said the book's developments were too outlandish for credulity. Let's just say without giving up a HUGE spoiler that there is reason for this: it all has a grand purpose, a grand d...

The Fuck-Up (1999)

I liked the first three quarters of this book a lot. It was kind of like a punk/new wave Candide set in early 80s New York. It also reminded me a lot of Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, which I enjoyed. The narrator, for whom the novel is clearly named, makes a series of bad decisions which in...

The Swing Voter of Staten Island (2007)