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Author:

Nersesian, Arthur, author.

Title:

The five books of (Robert) Moses : a novel / by Arthur Nersesian ; [illustrated by Lisa D. Archigian].

Publisher:

Akashic Books,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

1506 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

United States.--Federal Bureau of Investigation--Officials and employees--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
City planners--Fiction.
Terrorism--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--21st century--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--20th century--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--21st century--Fiction.
Political fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)

Other Authors:

Archigian, Lisa D., illustrator.

Other Titles:

Swing voter of Staten Island.
Sacrificial circumcision of the Bronx.
Terrible beauty of Brooklyn.
Postmorphogenesis of Manhattan.
Cognitive contagion of Queens.

Notes:

Maps on end papers. Some "books" published separately.

Contents:

The cognitive contagion of Queens. The sacrificial circumcision of the Bronx -- The terrible beauty of Brooklyn -- The postmorphogenesis of Manhattan -- The cognitive contagion of Queens.

Summary:

Follows an FBI agent and a controversial urban planner through an alternate New York City that suffered a terrorist attack in the 1970s, as well as the lawless "Rescue City" where refugee New Yorkers were settled. 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, with fictional accounts of Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, J. Edgar Hoover, and Jane Jacobs, the urbanist and activist, and others.
Nersesian's series of novels offering an alternate history of New York.

ISBN:

9781617754999 (hardcover)
1617754994

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1121084068

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)