Suicide Casanova
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WHAT DO BILL CLINTON, JAMES MCGREEVEY, WOODY ALLEN, MICHAEL JACKSON, AND OJ SIMPSON HAVE IN COMMON with
Leslie Cauldwell, protagonist of Nersesian's latest offering? They are Suicide
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Casanovas. What compels powerful men in the prime of their professional lives to
risk so much? Following the commercial success of his first four novels (see bio
below), Suicide Casanova presents 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 the "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.
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