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Title: Suicide Casanova
Author: Arthur Nersesian
Narrator: Mark Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-21-11
Publisher: Iambik
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Erotica & Sexuality, Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
What do Gary Condit, Woody Allen, and O.J. Simpson have in common with Leslie Cauldwell, protagonist of Nersesian's latest offering? They are Suicide Casanovas. What compels powerful men in the prime of their professional lives to risk so much? Following the commercial success of his first three novels (Manhattan Loverboy, The Fuck-Up, and dogrun), Nersesian's new novel is a psychosexual thriller, a dramatic departure from his youthful black comedies: Humbert Humbert without the pedophile penchant, Hannibal Lechter without the appetitite.
Corporate attorney Leslie Cauldwell is middle-aged, handsome, and rich, but has only a few swipes left on his mental Metrocard. During a rough sex session, he garrotes his beloved wife; now he's an officially designated "sex offender," off on a bender, looking for love in all the wrong places. Twenty years earlier, when his office was high above the pornographic purgatory of Times Square, Leslie became involved with the adult-film star, Sky Pacifica. She needed a refuge, and he was ripe for the using. Following a brief fling, each went their own way. Two decades later, in 2001, Leslie is still working in Times Square - recently sanitized with its ESPN Zone and MTV window - and fraught with guilt about his "accident" with his wife.
Like Jay Gatsby pursuing an erotic American dream, Leslie, with the help of a private detective, hunts down Sky Pacifica, his latter-day Daisy. Across a landscape of S&M mistresses and porn producers, from L.A. of the 80s to New York of the new millennium, we see a modern-day tale of love and loss, innocence and corruption, crime and redemption.
Members Reviews:
a wonderful read
This was the first arthur nersesian book i have ever read, and i was pleasantly suprised by the experience of reading this wonderful novel. It really puts you deep into the mind of Leslie Cauldwell, the proprietor of this book, and really makes you feel what he is feeling emotionally. Nersesian has a unique writing style all of his own, and really wrote this book well. I read this in two sittings, as it is very hard to put down once you get into it, i reccomend this book to everyone who is looking for something different with guts.
An excellent writer, I very much enjoyed Chinese Take Out ...
An excellent writer, I very much enjoyed Chinese Take Out and the Fuck-up but this one dragged on about the lead character's "problem," which I will not get into here. I lost interest in the middle and moved on to a better less disturbing read.
Deeper Analysis?
This is a sharp novel which, as another review stated, probably needs some deeper dissection. One day, I surmise, scholars will dissect Nersessian's work; I found this novel entertaining and valuable to the canon of 21st century underground literature. I like all of Nersesian's work and this is no exception. The ending, on a few days of retrospection, did feel a little rushed. The hardcover is wonderful! But pick up a softcover as a 'reading copy', as the hardcover is difficult to maneuver!
Twisted and I like it
Great book. It's everything you don't want in a fairy tale, no happy endings but a hell of a ride.