"A storyteller of refreshing inventiveness and subtlety" (San Francisco Chronicle), Jonathan Ames has won critical raves for this delightful "comedy of impeccable manners with a...
"A storyteller of refreshing inventiveness and subtlety" (San Francisco Chronicle), Jonathan Ames has won critical raves for this delightful "comedy of impeccable manners with a debauched '90s spin" (Elle). Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere.
Meet Henry Harrison: former actor, failed but brilliant playwright, and a well-seasoned escort for New York City's women of means. He dances alone to Ethel Merman records, second-acts operas, and performs his scrappy life with the dignity befitting a self-styled man of the world. What can this ageless Don Quixote of the Upper East Side have to offer a young gentleman such as Louis? What, indeed.
Well, the answer lies somewhere between the needs of an irascible mentor and the education of his eager apprentice...between cocktails on the Upper East Side and an even more intoxicating treat along the secret fringes of Times Square...and between friendship and longing.
Author: Jonathan Ames
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 07/01/1999
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.30w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780671015589
Review Citation(s): Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 36
New York Times 09/05/1999 pg. 24
About the AuthorAmes, Jonathan: - Jonathan Ames is 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;
The Alcoholic; and
The Double Life Is Twice As Good. He's the creator of the HBO(R) Original Series
Bored to Death and has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as "The Herring Wonder." His most recent work is the detective novel
A Man Named Doll.
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