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The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx


by Arthur Nersesian

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Sales Rank: 115978
Studio: Akashic Books
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Akashic Books


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"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 Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Swing Voter of Staten Island-the first two installments in Arthur Nersesian's series of novels offering an alternate history of New York: The Five Books of Moses.

Robert Moses was responsible for creating contemporary New York's infrastructure, but he did so at the cost of destroying neighborhoods. In this novel, Robert has looted his brother Paul's share of the Moses family fortune, repeatedly blocked his attempts at gaining public office, thwarted his career in the private sector, and set in motion events that decimate Paul's home life.

Paul Moses' deep-seated rage metamorphoses into an act of terrorism committed against his brother and against a city that he once cherished. Although it can be read as a stand-alone novel about Robert and Paul Moses, The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx is also a memory play that follows Uli Sarkisian-the hero of The Swing Voter of Staten Island-en route to solving a massive historical crime, while desperately struggling to escape from becoming another one of its victims.

Arthur Nersesian is the author of eight novels, including the smash hit The Fuck-Up (more than 100,000 copies sold), dogrun, Suicide Casanova (Akashic Books), and, most recently, The Swing Voter of Staten Island, the first volume in The Five Books of Moses series. He lives in New York City.



CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 1 review)

Good read, intriguing followup, can't wait for the third book of Moses  
I've been reading Nersesian since I lived in the East Village of New York about 5 years back. I've enjoyed most of his books, I luckily came across the Swing Voter of Staten Island at Powell's Books in Portland, I really liked that book a lot so this made me pretty excited.

I just finished the book this morning, I don't want to give anything away, but I liked it, it wasn't as good as the first book of Moses, but it was still very enjoyable and I liked the interweaving of the two stories, but I would have liked to see more of Uli in the book.

If you haven't read any Arthur Nersesian before, don't start here, if you've read the Swing Voter of Staten Island and liked it you should also like this
October 03, 2008


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