false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223630251m/1193918.jpg 1193918 3 Nik Cohn is not the kind of novelist who is content to write about the merely downtrodden. In his new novel, <i>Need</i>, the belly dancers also deliver Verse-O-Grams; the sad sack has a shoe fetish and dreams of making his fortune as topless car-wash magnate; and even the psychic moonlights running a bizarre pet shop. Of course, the novel is set in New York City, where all this and more is possible, really. There's something a little hallucinatory about <i>Need</i>, as if the strange characters and the even stranger circumstances they find themselves in were all part of a troubling dream one can't quite wake from. Gritty as the urban landscape he details, Nik Cohn's language is the engine that keeps this novel running to the very end. 1851353 18 2 1997 Need total:3|5:0|4:1|3:1|2:1|1:0| 3 9 5 0 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 14:38:37 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:38:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 05:33:28 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 05:33:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 17 19:45:32 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 19:46:58 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 15 08:48:37 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 08:48:37 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Wed Jun 13 17:04:08 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 17:04:08 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1193918