Jonathan Ames Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Soon to be a major film starring Joaquin Phoenix, directed by Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

Written by Jonathan Ames Art and cover by Dean Haspiel "Hysterically funny and gut-wrenchingly dramatic...graphic lit at it's best." - WIZARD MAGAZINE "Painfully honest, shockingly revealing and totally riveting." - Blair Butler, G4TV "An engaging graphic novel . . . Unflinching . . . Powerful." - THE NEW YORK TIMES "Tender, funny and heartbreaking." - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Jonathan A. is a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic and, of course, entirely fictional novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life writer Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man and What's Not to Love? For the fictional Jonathan, writing and drinking come easy. The hard parts of life are love and hope. From a touching relationship between Jonathan and his aging great aunt, to an inebriated evening with an amorous, octogenarian dwarf, Ames's first original graphic novel, with gritty, poignant art by Dean Haspiel (THE QUITTER), tells a story about how our lives fall to pieces and the enduring human struggle to put things back together again. Advance-solicited; on sale September 16 - 136 pg, 6.875" x 9", B&W, $14.99 US - MATURE READERS

A brilliant contemporary reimagining of the greatest comic relationship of all time, which goes far beyond pastiche to places even Wodehouse couldn't.

Louis Ives è un giovane professore di provincia romantico, colto e con un fascino chic e démodé alla Scott Fitzgerald. Peccato che a causa di quella sua fissazione per il look e i vestiti da donna si sia fatto sorprendere in sala professori con addosso un reggiseno sottratto a una collega. Henry Harrison è un ex attore, un commediografo fallito che fa da accompagnatore a miliardarie newyorkesi cui scrocca inviti e favori d'ogni tipo. Del resto, a loro un uomo in piú a tavola fa sempre comodo, una volta che i mariti sono tutti defunti. Ma Louis e Henry, che con la loro irriverente eccentricità ci portano a spasso per una Manhattan viziosa e stralunata, sono molto piú di un maestro e del suo timido, compiacente allievo. Sono un'irresistibile «strana coppia» con un sodalizio che si rinnova nella lieve, indimenticabile epica della follia quotidiana. Con intelligenza trascinante Jonathan Ames ha saputo miscelare in Io e Henry la leggerezza di Billy Wilder con la spericolatezza vitale di Philip Roth.

Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problems–and the genesis of this hilarious book–can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable from that of a five year old’s.”This wonderfully entertaining memoir is a touching and humorous look at life in New York City. But this is life for an author who can proclaim “my first sexual experience was rather it was with a prostitute”–an author who can talk about his desire to be a model for the Hair Club for Men and about meeting his son for the first time.Often insightful, sometimes tender, always witty and self-deprecating, What’s Not to Love? is an engaging memoir from one of our most funny, most daring writers.

Whoever it was who claimed that sex was the most fun you can have without laughing hadn't encountered Neurotica --an anthology of Jewish short stories, most of which uncover the hilarity inherent in carnality. It is a stellar collection of twenty-seven tales of sexual longing and consummation and frustration--of straight and gay sex, married, unmarried, and adulterous sex, filthy, platonic, and pathetic sex, great sex, awful sex, and solo sex--by many of the masters and the freshest new voices of the Jewish-American literary tradition. Some of the stories are graphic, some ethereal, some wildly comic, some deeply tragic, but all offer a distinctively Jewish point of view on a universal pastime and preoccupation. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll--well, only you know what you'll do.

When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant -- and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinction, Alexander Vine charts his destructive course -- and his struggle for redemption -- with startling, unadorned clarity.