The Sacrificial Circumcision Of The Bronx
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The Sacrificial Circumcision Of The Bronx
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Author : Arthur Nersesian
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Sacrificial Circumcision Of The Bronx written by Arthur Nersesian and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Fiction categories.
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.
Alice Fantastic
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Author : Maggie Estep
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Alice Fantastic written by Maggie Estep and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Alice turns to her half sister when things go wrong, and they discover an awful secret their mother has been keeping.
The Five Books Of Robert Moses
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Author : Arthur Nersesian
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2020-07-28
The Five Books Of Robert Moses written by Arthur Nersesian and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Fiction categories.
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.
Marked In Your Flesh
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Author : Leonard B. Glick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-30
Marked In Your Flesh written by Leonard B. Glick and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-30 with Religion categories.
The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism's fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As time went on, Europeans developed folklore about malicious Jews who performed sacrificial murders of Christian children and delighted in genital mutilation. But Jews held unwaveringly to the belief that being a Jewish male meant being physically circumcised and to this day even most non-observant Jews continue to follow this practice. In this book, Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England--but not, interestingly, in continental Europe--were performing the procedure routinely. Glick shows that Jewish American physicians were and continue to be especially vocal and influential champions of the practice which, he notes, serves to erase the visible difference between Jewish and gentile males. Informed medical opinion is now unanimous that circumcision confers no benefit and the practice has declined. In Jewish circles it is virtually taboo to question circumcision, but Glick does not flinch from asking whether this procedure should continue to be the defining feature of modern Jewish identity.
The Blood Sacrifice Complex
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Author : E. M. Loeb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-30
The Blood Sacrifice Complex written by E. M. Loeb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with categories.
A reprint of Loeb's 1923 book, including maps.
The Swing Voter Of Staten Island
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Author : Arthur Nersesian
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Swing Voter Of Staten Island written by Arthur Nersesian and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Fiction categories.
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).
Gladyss Of The Hunt
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Author : Arthur Nersesian
language : en
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
Release Date : 2014-05-13
Gladyss Of The Hunt written by Arthur Nersesian and has been published by Verse Chorus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-13 with Fiction categories.
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. But Gladyss believes her mystical yoga practice can give her an intuitive edge in solving the crimes and sees mythological patterns in the suspects and events they’re investigating. Bernie thinks she’s nuts, but then, he's a little too grounded. In fact, he's on a steady downward spiral: his wife is divorcing him, his longtime partner just died of AIDS, and he's developed a nagging cough since working down at Ground Zero. Gladyss of the Hunt oscillates between chilly street realism and new age mysticism. As their investigation takes Bernie and Gladyss from arty society gatherings to shabby hotels and SROs, the narrative offers a suspenseful, often wittily satirical account of a city that is flashy and glamorous one moment, dark and violent the next.
Mesopotamia
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Author : Arthur Nersesian
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2010-07-01
Mesopotamia written by Arthur Nersesian and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Fiction categories.
“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
The Fuck Up
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Author : Arthur Nersesian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Fuck Up written by Arthur Nersesian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Blood Sacrifice Complex
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Author : Edwin Meyer Loeb
language : en
Publisher: Periodicals Service Company
Release Date : 1923
The Blood Sacrifice Complex written by Edwin Meyer Loeb and has been published by Periodicals Service Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Cannibalism categories.