Jonathan Ames

Broschiertes Buch

I Love You More Than You Know

Essays

Beschreibung

Alive with love and tenderness for his son, his parents, and even strangers in bars late at night, this latest collection by Ames looks beneath the surface of our world to find the beauty in the perverse, the sweetness in loneliness, and the humor in pain.

Autor

Jonathan Ames is the author of the novels I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and Wake Up, Sir!, and the essay collections What's Not to Love? and My Less Than Secret Life. He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press. Wake Up, Sir! and The Extra Man are in development as films, with Ames writing the screenplays. Ames adapted What's Not to Love? as a TV pilot for the Showtime network and played himself. Of the experience he has said, "It's the role I'd been waiting for!” The pilot will air sometime in 2005 or 2006. Ames performs frequently as a storyteller and comedian and has been a recurring guest on the Late Show with David Letterman. He had one amateur boxing match, fighting and losing as "The Herring Wonder.”

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780802170170
• ISBN-10: 080217017X
• Artikelnr.: 22275200