Jonathan Ames

Una novela negra dura y provocadora, digna de Raymond Chandler, escrita por Jonathan Ames, creador de Bored to DeathUn héroe cuya arma favorita es un martillo… claramente tiene problemasJoe es un ex

Alan Blair es un joven y despistado escritor con problemas mentales, emocionales, sexuales, espirituales y físicos. Por suerte cuenta con Jeeves, un ayudante de cámara eficiente y leal. Cuando lo hechan de casa sus tios, Alan y Jeeves emprenden un viaje por carretera hacia una bohemia colonia de artistas en Saratoga Springs.

La carrera como profesor de inglés de Louis Ives se ve interrumpida inesperadamente cuando lo pillan en la sala de profesores llevando un sujetador de una compañera de trabajo. Escapa a Nueva York, donde acaba compartiendo piso con Henry Harrison, un caballero de mediana edad que enseña a Louis como actuar y sobrevivir en la ciudad (con metodos mas bien poco ortodoxos) y como ganar dinero acompañando mujeres mayores de alto poder adquisitivo. Louis explora su sexualidad en los bares y clubes de la ciudad mientras desarrolla una profunda, pero platonica, dependencia de Henry.

Jonathan Ames, creador de la serie "Bored to Death", ofrece su mejor colección de textos hasta la fecha, entre ellos el relato que dio origen a la célebre serie televisiva de la HBO. Esta colección de articulos, ensayos y relatos es arriesgada, hilarante, literaria y, sobre todo, increiblemente original.Los seguidores de Ames disfrutaran con esta mezcla de articulos periodisticos, ensayos y relatos cortos. Hallaran en este libro pequeñas biografias de Marilyn Manson y Lenny Kravitz, un relato de las aventuras de Ames disfrazado de gotico en un festival en el Medio Oeste, un relato que escribio para Esquire en una servilleta, y una tira comica que realizo en colaboracion con el dibujante Nick Bertozzi.El estilo unico y el humor y la personalidad de Ames se perciben en todos los textos, especialmente en el relato "Bored to Death" que da titulo al libro y es una historia al estilo de Chandler sobre un escritor bloqueado que acaba envuelto en la busqueda de una joven tras ofrecer sus servicios como detective privado en una pagina web.

La odisea de un detective irreverente en las sórdidas calles de Los Ángeles. Feliz Muñeca es un encantador aunque inexperto detective privado que vive en Hollywood con su querido chucho, George. Veterano de la Marina y de la Policia de Los Angeles, Muñeca complementa sus exiguos ingresos como detective trabajando por las noches en un spa que ofrece "finales felices". Armado con una porra extensible y humor negro, el expolicia protege a las mujeres que trabajan alli de clientes a los que les cuesta entender que "no" significa "no". Su vida transcurre con cierta normalidad hasta que, un dia, se encuentra con un cliente especialmente violento. Por si fuera poco, las cosas se desmadran todavia mas cuando un excompañero de la Policia que necesita un trasplante de riñon se presenta en su casa con una bala en la barriga. A partir de ese momento, Muñeca tendra que hacer todo lo posible por sobrevivir en las violentas y vibrantes calles de Los Angeles.

Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade.When he''s hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe''s small web of associates are picked off one by one, he realizes that he has no choice but to take the fight to the men who want him dead.Brutal and redemptive in equal measure, You Were Never Really Here is a toxic shot of a thriller, laced with corruption, revenge and the darkest of inner demons.

A former Marine and ex-FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and haunted, he prefers to be invisible. He doesn't allow himself friends or lovers and makes a living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex trade. But when a high-ranking New York politician hires him to extricate his teenage daughter from a Manhattan brothel, Joe uncovers a web of corruption that even he may not be able to unravel. When the men on his trail take the only person left in the world who matters to him, he forsakes his pledge to do no harm. If anyone can kill his way to the truth, it's Joe...

Quand Jonathan A. se retrouve a larriere dune voiture avec une vieille naine qui en a apres son caleçon, il prend conscience quil a peut-etre un probleme avec lalcool. Sa premiere cuite lavait pourtant initie a lephemere magie de la biere : une potion magique qui rend plus beau, plus cool mais qui le laisse sur le carreau. Un avertissement qui ne la pas empeche de mener une double vie : premier de la classe la semaine, dernier des alcoolos le week-end. Sa vie sexuelle est tout aussi erratique, mettant a mal une amitie quil croyait indestructible. Puis surviennent les drames, et cest desormais loubli que Jonathan cherche dans les ivresses : celle de lalcool, bien sur, mais aussi celles de lamour et du manque.Journaliste, romancier et scenariste, Jonathan Ames (createur de Bored to death et de Blunt Talk) signe ici avec le talentueux Dean Haspiel (American Splendor, Spiderman) un premier roman graphique sublime ou le trait expressionniste de lillustrateur donne corps et ame a ces memoires fictifs qui touchent au realisme le plus strict, cest-a-dire brutal, absurde, tendre mais pas denue dhumour.

After unexpectedly losing his job, former Princeton private school teacher Louis Ives is forced to take a room in the dank, cluttered New York apartment of one Henry Harrison, a failed playwright so

Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic and newly unemployed after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere. Meet Henry Harrison: former actor, brilliant but failed playwright, and a well-seasoned escort for New York City's women of means. What can this ageless Don Quixote of the Upper East Side have to offer a young gentleman such as Louis? What, indeed... This is the kind of story that will make you hoot with laughter before flooring you with a sucker punch of pathos. It's a story of friendship and frustration, of cocktails and cross-dressing, and you should read it immediately!

The basis for the HBO Original Series starring Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), and Ted Danson, Bored to Death is a Raymond Chandleresque tale of a struggling Brooklyn writercuriously named Jonathan Ameswho, in a moment of odd whimsy and boredom, becomes a private detective after spontaneously posting an ad on craigslist. As a rank amateur who just thinks he can help, this Ames alter ego quickly becomes embroiled in the search for a missing NYU coed. He moves from one scrape to the next, all while trying to escape a life of periodic alcoholism, dead-end relationships, writers block, and hours of Internet backgammon. Bored to Death was originally published in McSweeneys Issue 24 and is the centerpiece of Amess collection of essays and fiction, The Double Life Is Twice as Good.Bored to Death Artwork 2009 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.

Wildly original novelist, essayist, and performance artist Jonathan Ames delivers a hilarious, risqué, and loveable selection of articles, essays, and fiction, including several previously unpublished pieces.In The Double Life Is Twice as Good, fans will be treated to a deft and charming compilation of Amess journalism, personal essays, and short fiction. Featuring illuminating profiles of Marilyn Manson and Lenny Kravitz, his adventures at a goth festival in the Midwest, a story written for Esquire on a napkin, as well as a comic strip collaboration with graphic artist Nick Bertozzi, Amess unique style and personality-driven humor shines throughout this wickedly funny collection. Also included is the short story, Bored to Death, a Raymond Chandleresque tale about a struggling writer-turned-detective who becomes quickly embroiled in the search for a missing college co-ed, which inspired the HBO series of the same name. Described by The Portland Oregonian as an edgier David Sedaris, Ames will have you hooked with this brilliant collection.

Jonathan Ames But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing At the time the passage above was written, people who felt trapped in the wrong gender automatically became case-studies. Today they become the men and women they always felt they were. Transsexuals test our notions of what it is to be male or female and, more provocatively, what it means to be one self as opposed to another. Their stories, says Jonathan Ames, hold the appeal of an adventurers tale.

Un héroe cuya arma favorita es un martillo… claramente tiene problemasJoe es un ex marine y ex agente del FBI, solitario y perseguido, que prefiere ser invisible. No se permite ni amigos ni amantes y