East Village Tetralogy

(Paperback)

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Nersesian's cult status has grown from the success of his novels - he is the author of the cult bestselling novel The Fuck Up - and here for the first time his equal skills as a playwright are revealed to the public. Three of the four plays in this volume have been staged off-Broadway in New York City. The four plays included are Rent Control, East Village Writer's Bloc, Plea Bargains and Spare Change.

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"Nersesian is this generation's Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi." - Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance "...One of the wittiest and most perceptive chroniclers of downtown life." - Time Out New York "Not since Henry Miller has a writer so successfully captured the...tribulations of a struggling artist...a masterly image." Library Journal on Chinese Takeout"

Author Bio

Arthur Nersesian is the author of The Fuck-Up (MTV Books/Simon&Schuster), dogrun (MTV Books/Simon&Schuster) Chinese Takeout (HarperCollins), Unlubricated (HarperCollins), Manhattan Loverboy (Akashic) and Suicide Casanova (Akashic). The former managing editor of the Portable Lower East Side, he currently lives in New York City.