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I Pass Like Night

by Jonathan Ames

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When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant — and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinction, Alexander Vine charts his destructive course — and his struggle for redemption — with startling, unadorned clarity.

Review:

"Sex, isolation and urban squalor are the ingredients of this coolly objective, rather studied first novel by a 1987 Princeton graduate....As the encounters (all explicit, all presented as passionless transactions) accumulate, Vine becomes ever more alienated, but exactly where his downward spiral will lead remains murky. Ames's novel is composed of episodes and fragments, all reported in the kind of carefully toneless style that's meant to suggest the deadened nerve-endings of a shell-shocked soul. Despite the no-holds-barred accounts of his liaisons, Vine's lack of introspection distances the reader from the story." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"An authentic voice of youthful suffering. Mr. Ames's antisocial young hero comes through as a cross between Jean Genet and Holden Caulfield in the age of AIDS. The style is the real achievement: strong, clean, and poker-faced." Philip Roth

Synopsis:

When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant — and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinction, Alexander Vine charts his destructive course — and his struggle for redemption — with startling, unadorned clarity.

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About the Author

Jonathan Ames is a columnist for New York Press. He lives in New York City, where he performs frequently as a storyteller in theaters and nightclubs. He is the winner of a Transatlantic Review award and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also the author of The Extra Man, available from Washington Square Press.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780671034269

Author:

Ames, Jonathan

Publisher:

Washington Square Press

Location:

New York

Subject:

General

Subject:

Jews

Subject:

New York

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1999

Edition Description:

B102

Series:

Contemporary Classics

Series Volume:

105-309

Publication Date:

July 1999

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

176

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.31 in 8.19 oz

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Product details 176 pages Washington Square Press - 1999-07-00 English 9780671034269 Reviews:

"Review" by Publishers Weekly, "Sex, isolation and urban squalor are the ingredients of this coolly objective, rather studied first novel by a 1987 Princeton graduate....As the encounters (all explicit, all presented as passionless transactions) accumulate, Vine becomes ever more alienated, but exactly where his downward spiral will lead remains murky. Ames's novel is composed of episodes and fragments, all reported in the kind of carefully toneless style that's meant to suggest the deadened nerve-endings of a shell-shocked soul. Despite the no-holds-barred accounts of his liaisons, Vine's lack of introspection distances the reader from the story."

"Review" by Philip Roth, "An authentic voice of youthful suffering. Mr. Ames's antisocial young hero comes through as a cross between Jean Genet and Holden Caulfield in the age of AIDS. The style is the real achievement: strong, clean, and poker-faced."

"Synopsis" by Simon and Schuster, When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant — and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinction, Alexander Vine charts his destructive course — and his struggle for redemption — with startling, unadorned clarity.