Jonathan Ames
Autor/a de Wake Up, Sir!
Sobre l'autor
Jonathan Ames is a contributing writer to the New York Press and a comic monologist in the tradition of Spalding Gray. His first novel I Pass Like Night was published in 1989 and led to feature articles about Ames in USA Today and Vanity Fair. Ames has performed at PS 122, Fez, the Nuyorican Poets' mostra'n més Cafe and the New York Public Library. His work has been anthologized in the Henfield Foundation Anthology and in an anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates. He has worked as a taxi driver, au pair, fiction writing teacher and model. He grew up in Orange, New Jersey, and currently resides in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) Jonathan Ames lives in Brooklyn, New York. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photographed by Travis Roozée
Sèrie
Obres de Jonathan Ames
Bored to Death: The Complete Series — Creator — 3 exemplars
The Nista Affair (in McSweeney's 8 - EGGERS) 2 exemplars
Self-Portrait (in McSweeney's 34 - EGGERS) 1 exemplars
Old Man, Young Girl 1 exemplars
o acompanhante 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting… (2004) — Narrador, algunes edicions — 717 exemplars
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Col·laborador — 548 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Col·laborador — 280 exemplars
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
The Encyclopedia of Exes: 26 Stories by Men of Love Gone Wrong (2005) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Moonlighting: The Complete Fifth Season — Actor — 10 exemplars
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1964-03-23
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
- Educació
- Princeton University
Columbia University - Professions
- novelist
essayist
columnist - Organitzacions
- New York Press
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
to get (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 27
- També de
- 16
- Membres
- 2,605
- Popularitat
- #9,862
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 79
- ISBN
- 109
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 11
There are parts of this story which are quite unbelievable: Doll does kill a lot of people, especially at the end and there is no real wrap up for this. Perhaps the next book will start off where this one finished. At this point, Doll is snorting cocain and heroin, has a nasty wound on his thigh and has just had a dip in the local river so it is bound to become infected. However, to try and control himself, he does have Buddhist leanings and a dog that loves him no matter how many people he kills.
One of the things that Chandler, the king of hard-boiled detectives, did was to use similes very effectively and so does Ames.
The back doors of the van were open like wings, and he sat on the lip of the interior, with his feet dangling. Behind him was his mattress and there was clutter and garbage all around his bed, like a human version of a bird's nest - if the bird had begun to lose its mind.
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There's humour, wisecracks and dialogue that is spikey and staccato. The wheel that is named in the title is the full circle Doll goes through in finding the love of his life, only to lose her again. It takes him back to his drug addict days.
It's a quick read and is good fun if you can suspend disbelief long enough.… (més)