Mal es un treintañero marginal que ha decidido acabar con la pasividad de su vida y vengar su soledad en el centro comercial de la ciudad. Danny es un joven y exitoso hombre de negocios, padre de familia, perdido por los catalogos de ropa interior femenina, cuya mas atrevida fantasia sexual es espiar a las mujeres en los probadores de las tiendas del centro comercial cercano a su casa. Jeff es un adolescente con problemas existenciales que, desorientado por el acido y su amor frustrado por Adelle, deambula sin rumbo por los frios pasillos del centro comercial en el que se suele reunir con sus amigos en las aburridas tardes de ocio. Donna solo quiere olvidar su monotona vida de ama de casa y jugar a ser otra entre las tiendas del centro comercial y los jovenes adolescentes que todavia se detienen a mirarla. Michel quiere cumplir con la unica mision que le ha dejado su vida de inmigrante haitiano, la de proteger a los vendedores y visitantes en su papel de guardia de seguridad del centro comercial que le ha contratado. Sus vidas van a cruzarse. Y todos ellos van a estar en el punto de mira de Mal. / A faithful exegete of suburban nihilism, playwright and solo performer Bogosian delivers for his first novel a surreal ""day in the life"" tale that explores two of his trademark themes: suburban life and the illusory nature of ""normalcy."" Mal is a 30-something speed freak living with his mother in a drugged out fog, unwashed and virtually unconscious. After 90 days on crystal meth, Mal kills his mom, then goes on a rampage at the nearby mall. Bogosian uses this event to introduce a cross-section of mall life. Jeffrey, a dreadlocked teen, fantasizes about being a writer. He's got a crush on Adelle, whose narcissistic ennui he attributes to ""a kind of efficiency. She's full of life but she's saving herself for the right moment...."" His friend Berkeley has scored some retro windowpane acid, and so Jeff experiences Mal's fiery incursion in a hallucinatory state. Businessman Danny is a hapless, though hardly innocent, shopper at the mall, who spots Donna, an exhibitionist, sex-starved housewife performing a kinky striptease in a half-open dressing room. The police catch Danny peeping and arrest him, but then Mal, now shooting indiscriminately in the mall, pegs the cops, and Danny is left to wander around in handcuffs, which is how he runs into Adelle, who takes Danny on a sexy ride he may never recover from. While Bogosian's teen characters seem a little bit like rejects from a To Die For casting call, his droll remarks and dramatic pacing make this debut novel a typically Bogosian experienceDlively and unique. If this absurdist La Ronde sometimes goes over the edge, Bogosian's stature in contemporary pop culture, and his proven ability to work (and self-publicize) in numerous media, should give his novel legs. Reed Business Information...

“Bogosian’s script retains the playwright-performer’s trademark vitriol and hammer wit.”—Time Out

This new version of Eric Bogosian’s best-selling play, set in a convenience store parking lot, premiered last season Off Broadway. His rewrites—for a world seeped in cell phones, hip-hop, and a new political context—render the piece “an American anyplace where everything, yet nothing, has changed” (The New York Times).

Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo shows include Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; and Drinking in America. He has received three OBIE awards and has toured throughout the country.

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Almost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he envisioned for himself as a younger man. Now financially comfortable and artistically embittered, Richard is at his home upstate recuperating from heart surgery and nursing resentment toward his publisher and his reading public who have found new, more exciting writers and left his star to wane.

In his attic, Richard comes across a stack of notebooks, the journals he began keeping when he arrived in New York in the late '70s. He is alternately fascinated and repelled by the young man he meets in these pages: hilariously naïve and egotistically misguided, the younger Richard compulsively absorbs everything around him from art and creativity to sex and drugs. As he reads more about himself, written by himself, Richard discovers that the pivotal moments of self-invention -- and self-realization -- occur far outside the conventional chronology of a lifetime.

Perforated Heart explores two wholly different characters -- a young, ambitious artist and his older self, jaded by both success and failure -- and creates an unforgettable portrait of the two men who inhabit the one individual. By turns meditative, deftly observant, and scathingly analytical, Eric Bogosian re-creates the landscape and atmosphere of 1970s New York City with fresh, vivid imagery and reveals a powerful commentary on the dynamic between creativity and commerce in the artistic world. Perforated Heart is his most rewarding and penetrating novel yet, with prose that reflects an equally astonishing range of experience and emotion....