Synopses & Reviews
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 cant be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable from that of a five year olds.”
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 old-fashioned: 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, Whats Not to Love? is an engaging memoir from one of our most funny, most daring writers.
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"Hilarious. Jonathan Ames has an unusual ability to take crack-smoking, balding and Oedipal fixation and whip them up into an elegant, comic meringue." The New York Times Book Review
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"Ludicrously funny, disconcerting and refreshingly frank." The Denver Post
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"A mixture of unbridled libido and hopeless romanticism. [It] soar[s] with Ames' original wit and generous spirit." Entertainment Weekly
Synopsis
Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames's problems -- and the genesis of this hilarious book -- can be traced back to his difficult adolescence. After all, it can't be easy to be a prepubescent sixteen-year-old.
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 old-fashioned: 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 funniest, most daring writers.
About the Author
Jonathan Ames lives in Brooklyn, New York.