Manhattan
Loverboy
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"MLB is paranoid
fantasy and fantastic comedy in the service of socal realism, using the
methods of L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz or Kafka's The Trial to update
the picaresque urban chronicles of Augie March, with a far darker
edge...At its best, MLB assays the grittiest, funkiest
urban-magic-realism yet, creating a satirical fiction avidly in search
of the truth it's all too aware is even stranger than itself."
-Phil
Leggiere, Downtown
Nersesian's
brilliant follow-up to his underground classic, The Fuck-Up, Manhattan
Loverboyis paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in the service of
social realism. Updating the picaresque chronicles in L. Frank Baum's
Wizard of Oz and Kafka's The Trial, MLB 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.
