What's Not to Love: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer - Hardcover

Ames, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609605143 ISBN 13: 9780609605141

Verlag: Crown Pub, 2000

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Book by Ames Jonathan

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A humorous collection of essays tackles life in the city, chronicling the author's exploration of Manhattan's often seedy underworldas he tries out to become a model for the Hair Club for Men, awaits a delayed puberty, and copes with the angst of modern life. 12,500 first printing.

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an Ames is one of the funniest writers in America," so says Jonathan Ames, who is actually writing this flap copy, which is the publishing industry term for the boastful fluff you read on the inner portion of most hardcover book jackets. So let the truth be known: Most writers write or at least rewrite their flap copy. And why not? They are writers after all. For the flap copy on my last novel, I had the audacity to pronounce that I was one of America's most talented young writers. My mother read that and was very proud, pointing it out to me. I then said to her, "I wrote that." But she was still proud; she probably didn't believe that I wrote it. In fact, she doesn't believe most of what I tell her, but that's probably because she couldn't take it if she did believe me. Which is a good way to describe this book, this comic autobiography: It's the kind of book one's mother shouldn't read, though there are several passages where I profess my great Oedipal love and desire for my mother, w

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0609605143
• ISBN 13: 9780609605141
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272