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Title	:	The Fuck-Up
Author	:	Arthur Nersesian
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1999 by MTV Books (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Humor

The Fuck-Up

Arthur Nersesian

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.55 | 10927 Users | 425 Reviews

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Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life. This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of himself, and he's just trying to survive. But life has other things in store for the fuck-up. From being dumped by his girlfriend to getting fired for asking for a raise, from falling into a robbery to posing as a gay man to keep his job at a porno theater, the fuck-up's tragi-comedy is perfectly realized by Arthur Nersesian, who manages to create humor and suspense out of urban desperation. "Read it and howl," says Bruce Benderson (author of User), "and be glad it didn't happen to you."

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Original Title:	The Fuck-Up
ISBN:	0671027638 (ISBN13: 9780671027636)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.55 From 10927 Users | 425 Reviews

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For me, this book, the feelings that it conjured, and my overall thoughts about it, can be summed up in a single quote, "As the components of your life are stripped away, after all of the a,bit ions and hopes vaporize, you reach self-reflective starkness--the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string."A dark, comedic journey that left me feeling as though I wasn't alone in the world. And for that, I am thankful. 4 out of 5 stars.

I would highly reccomend this book to anyone with balls enough to explore a world completely unlike his own. This book follows one 20 something's unambitious but not exactly apathetic foray through his NYC life. He fails at relationships, keeping a job, keeping a roof over his head and via all three and a suicide learns the only lesson there is to learn from life, namely, how to learn contentment even when things aren't awesome. Excellent, real, gritty prose. A shorter more approachable



crap. no continuity. the guy didn't even know what he was talking about. even mildly homophobic and offensive, and not in a good way. god. i should have known better... i mean MTV books? oops.

I'm going through a relationship crisis right now, and for some twisted reason I felt that reading and carrying this book around would be like a little act of rebellion - would let me "own" my own fucked-up-edness. I'm glad I did, because, even though I've only read the first chapter, it made me laugh, which I thought would be impossible right now. It evokes a time and a kind of place I remember. The first chapter takes place often in a dingy second-run movie house; I frequented those a lot

Sort of an interesting look at how someone fairly stable could wind up homeless. I liked it at the start, but I found it on the whole to be horribly erratic, with some smallish moments gone over in intense detail and much more important sections just completely glossed over. Also the ending was just ridiculously not believable; it felt like he just woke up one morning and said, "Hmm, I'm tired of writing this book, soooo guess I'll just end it here." Very disappointing.

I may write a review later. I enjoyed this book a great deal. I intend to read more from this author.