Jonathan Ames Ordine dei libri

An offbeat, blackly comic thriller from the author of You Were Never Really Here.

A supremely hardboiled thriller adapted for a major Hollywood film starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Lynne Ramsay.

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.

Sexualität, Witz, großes Erzähltalent und überraschend zarte Eleganz - ein betörender moderner Bildungsroman! Louis Ives ist elegant gekleidet, romantisch veranlagt, eine Figur wie bei Fitzgerald. Allerdings hat er eine Vorliebe für Frauenkleider. Und als er eines Tages mit dem Büstenhalter einer Kollegin erwischt wird, verliert er seine Stelle als Lehrer.§Henry Harrison ist ehemaliger Schauspieler, brillanter, aber erfolgloser Dramatiker und in die Jahre gekommener Gigolo.§Die zufällig zustandegekommene Wohngemeinschaft dieser zwei Gentlemen, die beide etwas zu altmodisch für ihre Zeit sind, entwickelt sich zu einer wunderbaren Freundschaft, die an Harold und Maude erinnert. Henry und Louis führen einen ungeheuer liebenswürdigen Überlebenskampf im Moloch New York, und Ames hat mit seinen zwei Helden ein großartiges Buch über Freundschaft, das Abenteuer von Sexualität und die große Stadt am Hudson River geschrieben.

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.