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Title: The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0671015583 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06
Rating: 5
Summary: Most Overlooked Book of past 10 years
Comment: Reading this brilliant novel, I can't help but thinking what a shame it is the author remains largely unknown. The Extra Man is better than anything Roth or any other.... Perhaps this is because Nick Hornsby has cornered the market on 1st person male neuroses but Ames is so much more inventive, anyone with a sense of humor needs to read this!!! Hysterically funny with tremendous character work throughout, this is a book you'll read in one sitting, not because of simplistic style, but because it's that damn good!!! Oh, and you'll never look at a transexual the same way again.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful new book
Comment: Jonathan Ames' latest novel is a marvelously entertaining and lovingly crafted jem. Ames' feat is one of dazzling intelligence and dexterity. Ames glides with ease as he bridges the troubling, unbridled honesty of contemporary fiction to the sophistication and wit of a lost generation. Gifted with the dissecting eye of the great humorists, and an uncanny willingness for self-examination, Ames is painfully funny. That is the simple fact of the matter. Funny. Yet the book exceeds the mere comic novel. It is a work whose writing touches the bedazzled longings of Fitzgerald and the needle point portraiture of Flaubert. The story fascinates with the deliciousness of a roman a clef and the promised intimacy of a hidden diary. The books' greatest accomplishment, however, is Ames' ingeniously drawn characters. Heartbreakingly funny and generously imbued with the eccentricities of life, upon discovering them, they will surely remain old and cherished friends forever. Like findi! ng a exotic lagoon, take pause and relax in this novel's wonderfully buoyant and delightfully dangerous waters.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tender & often hilarious portrayal of sexual confusion
Comment: "The Extra Man" is Ames' follow-up to his debut novel, "I Pass Like Night," which covers some of the same territory, but is not as detailed as this. Here, Louis Ives, a sexually confused school teacher, is fired from his job following a comic encounter with a female colleague's bra. Determined to start life anew, he moves to NYC into the claustrophobic, roach-infested sty of an apartment with Henry Harrison, a misanthropic elder who makes his way through life as a gentleman escort for woman in high society. While in New York, Louis succumbs to the temptations and mystique of transvestite hookers in seamy Times Square, all the while cultivating his relationship with Henry, who serves so very well as the father figure Louis has always craved. "The Extra Man" is eminently accessible, and filled with honest, frenetic, and ribald writing reminiscent of Philip Roth and Paul Rudnick. I've never read a novel quite like this.Throughout, I rooted for both Louis and Henry, who became, for me, the quintessentail post-modern "odd couple." "The Extra Man" is as touching as it is funny.
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Title: My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 1560253754 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0375726497 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: I Pass Like Night (Contemporary Classics) by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 067103426X Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Fraud: Essays by David Rakoff ISBN: 0767906314 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 23 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Je Parler Francais (French Language Edition) by David Sedaris ISBN: 2290319740 Publisher: J Ai Lu Editions Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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