I Wish You Were Dead

Roman Rodavenga is an impoverished graduate student in the eighth futile year of laboring on his philosophy dissertation. He lives in a cramped, rent-controlled apartment in Alphabet City. When we meet him, he is on his way to visit the darkly charismatic local pawnshop owner, Lerman, who sells drugs and other contraband out of his suffocating apartment. Little does Lerman know that Roman is planning to kill him as part of a half-baked experimental acting out of his radical philosophical theories...

Author: Edward S. Barkin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 10/19/2009
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9781449572839

About the Author
Ed Barkin was born and raised in New York City and is a graduate of Yale University. He has written numerous screenplays and plays and has made three original feature films. His most recent film, "unforeseen," had its international premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival. Variety called it "offbeat and accomplished" and singled Ed out for mention as an "attention-capturing" writer/director. Ed has also published a number of articles in top academic journals, such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. I Wish You Were Dead is his first novel.

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