The Double Life Is Twice as Good
Jonathan Ames
(Author)
Description
Wildly original novelist, essayist, and performance artist Jonathan Ames delivers a hilarious, risqué, and loveable selection of articles, essays, and fiction, including several previously unpublished pieces. In The Double Life Is Twice as Good, fans will be treated to a deft and charming compilation of Ames's journalism, personal essays, and short fiction. Featuring illuminating profiles of Marilyn Manson and Lenny Kravitz, his adventures at a goth festival in the Midwest, a story written for Esquire on a napkin, as well as a comic strip collaboration with graphic artist Nick Bertozzi, Ames's unique style and personality-driven humor shines throughout this wickedly funny collection. Also included is the short story, "Bored to Death," a Raymond Chandler-esque tale about a struggling writer-turned-detective who becomes quickly embroiled in the search for a missing college co-ed, which inspired the HBO series of the same name. Described by The Portland Oregonian as "an edgier David Sedaris," Ames will have you hooked with this brilliant collection.Product Details
Price
$16.99
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Publish Date
July 14, 2009
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.3 X 0.6 inches | 0.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781439102336
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About the Author
Jonathan Ames is also the author of I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Alcoholic. He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs and is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has had two amateur box- ing matches, fighting as "The Herring Wonder" and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews
"Bizarrely disparate: The topics range from prostitution to goth to tennis, but in Ames's capable hands the disparity works." -- Penthouse
"This hilarious, often harrowing compendium of articles and essays find [Ames] immersed in demented endeavors...certain to make his many fans snicker and squirm." -- Booklist
"Filled with its share of Ames classics." -- Kirkus Reviews
"This hilarious, often harrowing compendium of articles and essays find [Ames] immersed in demented endeavors...certain to make his many fans snicker and squirm." -- Booklist
"Filled with its share of Ames classics." -- Kirkus Reviews